(Jewish Group) 7/29 Google doodle celebrates Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat who saved Jews during WWII

[Behind the Aegis]

Monday’s Google doodle is of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania during World War II who defied the Nazis by issuing life-saving visas to thousands of Jews.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center estimates that as many as 40,000 people are alive today because of Sugihara’s efforts, which put his own career in danger. He ignored orders from Tokyo and helped Jews escape to places like Curacao, via Russia, China and Japan.

“He assumed a few people, maybe a few dozen, had actually used the visas to escape,” his son Nobuki told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in May. “He truly did not realize the magnitude of his actions until much, much later in life.”

The doodle, drawn by Matthew Cruickshank, is only being shown in Canada, Israel, Japan, Iceland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia.

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[irisblue]

1. Chiune Sugihara, and his wife Yukiko, are honored as "Righteous Gentiles"

Fascinating and brave husband and wife

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/chiune-sugihara

A more full biography is 👆

[Mosby]

2. K and R.

[virgogal]

3. I read a book on him....a wonderful man.

[mitch96]

4. "helped Jews escape to places like China and Japan"

I had a patient that escaped the holocaust by emigrating to China.. He said there was a large conclave of Expats in Shanghai China, then controlled by the Japanese.. The Japanese had no problem with the Jews on that region.. He spoke fluent German, Yiddish and the local dialect of Chinese...
I had some interesting patients in my career...
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