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4:17am May 5, 2015

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Japan PM hails Holocaust hero Chiune SugiharaPrime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Washington’s Holocaust Memorial on Monday to hail a rare hero of Japan’s brutal World War II past.Previously, Abe has faced criticism for his allegedly revisionist views of Japan’s own war-time behavior.But, on the eve of a White House meeting with President Barack Obama, Abe solemnly marked the genocide while hailing Japanese envoy Chiune Sugihara, who helped Jews flee Nazi-occupied Europe.Sugihara was Japan’s Imperial Consul in Lithuania, where he issued at least 2,000 visas allowing Jews to flee Nazi pogroms between 1939 and 1940.“As a Japanese citizen I feel extremely proud of Mr Sugihara’s achievement,” Abe said as he toured the memorial.“The courageous action by this single man saved thousands of lives.”As he visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum 70 years after the end of World War II and the liberation of Auschwitz, Abe said “my heart is filled with a solemn feeling.”“Never again,” he added.

when japan finally realized what he was doing and removed him from the position, chiune sugihara signed illegal exit visas for up to 18-20 hours a day for the last six weeks he held the position up until when he had to leave, allowing the amount of jews usually granted visas per month to exit each day.the night before he was scheduled to leave, he and his wife gave up on writing names, just signing and stamping the documents so people could fill their own names in later- he was still signing in transit from his lodging to the train station, and throwing them out the window of the train car as it pulled away, begging for forgiveness for not having been able to help more2000 visas is lowballing it, and only includes the visas we have documented evidence of- it’s estimated he issued about 6000 visas, many of which were for families, and likely saved as many as 10 000 lives. the simon wiesenthal centre estimates there are around 40 000 people who live today because of his actions in the short time he held the position.every time he comes up on my dash i write this story out again because i think it’s so important. i cry when i think about it (literally i’m crying right now). if every person in a position of structural power acted like sugihara, the world would be a much better place.chiune sugihara! remember his name!

eretzyisrael:

Japan PM hails Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Washington’s Holocaust Memorial on Monday to hail a rare hero of Japan’s brutal World War II past.

Previously, Abe has faced criticism for his allegedly revisionist views of Japan’s own war-time behavior.

But, on the eve of a White House meeting with President Barack Obama, Abe solemnly marked the genocide while hailing Japanese envoy Chiune Sugihara, who helped Jews flee Nazi-occupied Europe.

Sugihara was Japan’s Imperial Consul in Lithuania, where he issued at least 2,000 visas allowing Jews to flee Nazi pogroms between 1939 and 1940.

“As a Japanese citizen I feel extremely proud of Mr Sugihara’s achievement,” Abe said as he toured the memorial.

“The courageous action by this single man saved thousands of lives.”
As he visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum 70 years after the end of World War II and the liberation of Auschwitz, Abe said “my heart is filled with a solemn feeling.”

“Never again,” he added.

when japan finally realized what he was doing and removed him from the position, chiune sugihara signed illegal exit visas for up to 18-20 hours a day for the last six weeks he held the position up until when he had to leave, allowing the amount of jews usually granted visas per month to exit each day.
the night before he was scheduled to leave, he and his wife gave up on writing names, just signing and stamping the documents so people could fill their own names in later- he was still signing in transit from his lodging to the train station, and throwing them out the window of the train car as it pulled away, begging for forgiveness for not having been able to help more
2000 visas is lowballing it, and only includes the visas we have documented evidence of- it’s estimated he issued about 6000 visas, many of which were for families, and likely saved as many as 10 000 lives. the simon wiesenthal centre estimates there are around 40 000 people who live today because of his actions in the short time he held the position.
every time he comes up on my dash i write this story out again because i think it’s so important. i cry when i think about it (literally i’m crying right now). if every person in a position of structural power acted like sugihara, the world would be a much better place.
chiune sugihara! remember his name!