"Visas for Life"
Chiune-Sempo Sugihara (1900-1986)
Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat (fluent in Russian) sent to Lithuania to spy on German and Soviet activity . There, he issued around 2,140 visas for refugees to make a passage through Japan to the United States. Doing so, he risked his life as well as the lives of his family. In 1944 they were arrested by the soviets. He and his family were released 3 years later and returned to Japan in 1947.
In 1985 he was honored by Yad Vashem.
(A visa to travel from the
Netherlands to America.)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, . "Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara." Holocaust Encyclopedia . United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 11 May 2011. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005594>.
Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat (fluent in Russian) sent to Lithuania to spy on German and Soviet activity . There, he issued around 2,140 visas for refugees to make a passage through Japan to the United States. Doing so, he risked his life as well as the lives of his family. In 1944 they were arrested by the soviets. He and his family were released 3 years later and returned to Japan in 1947.
In 1985 he was honored by Yad Vashem.
(A visa to travel from the
Netherlands to America.)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, . "Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara." Holocaust Encyclopedia . United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 11 May 2011. Web. 15 Feb 2013. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005594>.
His wife
Yukiko Sugihara (1913-2008)
His second wife, Yukiko Kikuchi. Together they aided the refugees by handwriting more than 300 visas a day. Together they had 4 children.
After her husband's death she wrote Visas for Life telling their stories.
Greene, Ron. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html. N.p., 1997. Web. 20 Feb. 2013
His second wife, Yukiko Kikuchi. Together they aided the refugees by handwriting more than 300 visas a day. Together they had 4 children.
After her husband's death she wrote Visas for Life telling their stories.
Greene, Ron. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html. N.p., 1997. Web. 20 Feb. 2013