Post by Maggie on May 3, 2014 20:44:37 GMT -6
I have never heard of this man before nor had I heard his story. But it is wonderful.
His story:
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn't know what he'd done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died. (This is one of ten stories recounted on listverse all of which are worth reading.
I thank God for such men and for the witness they bear to human courage and decency.
His story:
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn't know what he'd done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died. (This is one of ten stories recounted on listverse all of which are worth reading.
I thank God for such men and for the witness they bear to human courage and decency.
