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Chinune Sugihara

Chinune Sugihara. Ali Hall. http://stamp-search.com/images/lib0249sh-sugihara.jpg, December 17, 2009. Diplomat Job Description. Issued visas government documents that allowed people to travel to a country for a period of time.

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Chinune Sugihara

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  1. Chinune Sugihara Ali Hall http://stamp-search.com/images/lib0249sh-sugihara.jpg, December 17, 2009.

  2. Diplomat Job Description • Issued visas • government documents that allowed people to travel to a country for a period of time http://www-personal.umich.edu/~szwetch/Stamps.of.Israel/sugihara.gif, January 3, 2010.

  3. The Two Choices of a Diplomat during Holocaust • Follow the rules of their government by not allowing the Jewish people to get a visa • These diplomats were scared for their own life • Follow their heart and illegally sign the visas for the Jewish people • These diplomats knew they could be fired from their job, their families and themselves could be killed by the Nazis http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/deuteronomy/nazis.jpg, December 17, 2009. http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/IMZ/IMZ001/sign-dotted-line_~cfr0047.jpg, January 3, 2010.

  4. Jews wanted visas to leave Hitler’s Europe… To avoid ghettos and concentration camps in Germany and other Germany occupied countries

  5. Chinune Sugihara • A Japanese man who would legally/illegally issue visas to Jews in Lithuania • Located in central Europe • Initially sent to work in Lithuania to watch where the Soviet and German armies were moving • He was allowed to issue visas to his homeland of Japan http://renginys.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/lithuania-vilnius map.jpg, December 17, 2009.

  6. Jews Came to Sugihara • After Soviet Army took over Lithuania and they wanted to escape • The Jews had heard Sugihara would try to issue them a visa • Sugihara had to make a big decision… to issue the visas or to not issue the visas http://www.teamrenzan.com/archives/writer/omnibus/sugihara.jpg, January 3, 2010.

  7. Will tomorrow be too late??? • Sugihara knew he had to hurry and issue visas, the Jews were disappearing daily • The Japanese government had directly told him not to issue any more visas to Jews because they would be an economic hardship once in Japan • He must issue the visas to the Jews so they could leave as soon as possible on a train

  8. “I may have disobeyed my government, but if I didn’t, I would be disobeying God” (Visas for Life).

  9. Sugihara was persuaded by the Jews to save them • For twenty-nine days, he illegally hand wrote visas • Became obsessed with writing the visas • Spent 18-20 hours EVERYDAY working on the visas http://news.webshots.com/photo/1094476426050164947gZRoBf, December 17, 2009.

  10. Writing Visas…

  11. Leaving Lithuania for Berlin • Sugihara was ordered to leave Lithuania • He had a reassignment in Berlin, Germany • Jews still followed him once he left his house begging for visas • He signed visas from the train window when it was moving! • Sugihara gave a Jewish man the Japanese stamp to illegally sign more visas http://www.kimonobox.com/wp-content/uploads /2009/06/house.jpg, January 3, 2010. http://media.photobucket.com/image/train%20tracks/Iloveradius/Train_tracks.jpg, January 3, 2010.

  12. Sugihara Returned to Japan in 1947 • Resigned from Foreign Services • He had many jobs before becoming the Moscow representative of a Japanese trading company • In 1985, Sugihara received the honorable title of “Righteous Among the Nations”, Israel’s highest honor • Sugihara died in 1986

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