Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that during World War II, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted as an ...

TIL that during World War II, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted as an acting consul in Lithuania, disobeyed his government's instructions and issued visas for Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.

https://jfr.org/rescuer-stories/sugihara-chiune/
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