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    Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas...
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  • スギハラチウネ, Sugihara Chiune) is a 2015 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Cellin Gluck. It depicts the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who...
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    The Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall is a museum in Yaotsu, Gifu, Japan. The museum tells visitors the story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved...
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    the Polish-Lithuanian Jewish community were additionally saved by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, and Jan Zwartendijk, director...
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  • idol Chiune Sugihara (1900–1986), Japanese diplomat, credited with saving the lives of some ten thousand Jews during the Holocaust George Sugihara (born...
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    God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (The Warriors). Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat...
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    the Soviets (and eventually from Nazis) by Japanese consul-general Chiune Sugihara and director of Philips plants in Lithuania and part-time acting consul...
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    visas issued by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul to Lithuania. Zwartendijk went against Dutch consular guidelines, and Sugihara ignored his orders...
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    "The Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall". www.sugihara-museum.jp. Retrieved 2021-09-03. Where is your birth place? The fourth son of Sugihara Chiune rounds...
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  • Cuban bandleader (d. 1990) Hub van Doorne, Dutch businessman (d. 1979) Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat, saved Jewish WWII refugees (d. 1986) January 2...
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    1940 issued visa by Consul Chiune Sugihara in Lithuania...
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    July 2015). "Chiune Sugihara: man of conscience". The Japan Times. Retrieved 11 July 2015. Kaleem, Jaweed (24 January 2013). "Chiune Sugihara, Japan Diplomat...
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    located in Kanegasaki Park, Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan. It emphasizes Chiune Sugihara, who saved the lives of many Jewish refugees during World War II by...
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  • of Romania (b. 1910) Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912) Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat and humanitarian who saved Jewish WWII refugees...
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    possibility of any official aid for the Plan from Tokyo. However, Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, began to issue, against...
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    the German Foreign Office who helped create the Nanking Safety Zone. Chiune Sugihara, Japanese vice-consul of Lithuania who saved the lives of 6,000 Jews...
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    from Tokyo. Despite this, the Japanese Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, began to issue transit visas to escaping Jews against orders from...
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    1940s Raoul Wallenberg, c. 1944 Muhammed Ali Jinnah with Gandhi, 1944. Chiune Sugihara c.1940s Joel Brand Behic Erkin Varian Fry Mohandas Gandhi Billy Graham...
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  • (Shinsayoku) Lod Airport massacre Taizō Itagaki [ja] Toshio Motoya Chiune Sugihara Norihiro Yasue Shanghai ghetto Jewish settlement in the Japanese Empire...
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    States. In 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Kaunas, and Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, and his wife Yukiko disobeyed orders...
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    led by Vice Consul Chiune Sugihara. However, due to the occupation, the consulate was shut the following year. In 1940, Chiune Sugihara assisted the flight...
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  • Socha Klymentiy Sheptytsky Ona Šimaitė Henryk Sławik Tina Strobos Chiune Sugihara Casper ten Boom Corrie ten Boom Johan van Hulst Raimondo Viale Raoul...
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  • Righteous Among the Nations title. In 1940–1941, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, vice-consul of the Empire in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic, granted...
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    street named after the late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was held in Netanya, Israel, on Tuesday. Sugihara issued transit visas to thousands of Jewish...
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    Israeli government representatives. Raoul Wallenberg Jan Zwartendijk Chiune Sugihara Tadeusz Romer Ten Green Bottles (book) Fugu Plan History of the Jews...
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  • Yanai, founder and CEO of Fast Retailing and the richest man in Japan; Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat who rescued 5,558 Jews during the Holocaust; Shizuka...
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  • Ichirō (1862-1918) Kenzo Oshima (1943–2021) Setsuzō Sawada (1884-1976) Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) Tatsuo Kawai (1889-1965) Kiyoshi Uchiyama Tokugawa Iesato...
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    reserve, the part held in Lithuanian-annexed Wilno to neutral Sweden. Chiune Sugihara, Japanese vice-consul in Kaunas, played a key role in the operation...
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    Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul to Lithuania, to issue Japanese transit visa. In doing so, both Zwartendijk and Sugihara disregarded...
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    Netflix; Cory Michael Smith plays Varian Fry. Charles Fernley Fawcett Chiune Sugihara List of Righteous among the Nations by country Sousa Mendes Foundation...
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