Chiune Sugihara ..... The Japanese Schindler Due to Steven Spielberg's 'Shindler's List,' people who do not know the Ge...
Chiune Sugihara ..... The Japanese Schindler
Due to Steven Spielberg's 'Shindler's List,' people who do not know the German businessman Oscar Shindler, are tough to be found. Shindler had mixed hands with the Nazis for the sake of alcoholism, laxity, business growth. But this German businessman secretly worked to eradicate ethnic hatred. At the time of the Holocaust, Shindler saved twelve hundred Jews from the fate of the gas chamber. Afterward, he regretted, "If I could sell the gold badges of my Nazi Party, I could save two more Jews!"
Sir Nicolas George Winton was also there. During the Second World War, he saved 669 children of Czechoslovakia from the aggression of the Nazis and moved them to Britain's safe haven. Nobody forgot Shindler. Neither did they forget Nicolas. But the person who they did not remember was the Japanese Chiune Sugihara. He also saved many Jews from Hitler's hand.
Sugihara's father wanted him to be a doctor. But Sugihara was attracted to literature. He studied in English and had been examined by foreign ministry scholarships. He worked in second lieutenant rank in the Imperial Army in Korea and Japan. Afterward, he worked for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He learned Russian and German languages while working in there.
Sugihara was elected Vice Consul of Japan in 1939 in Kaunas, Lithuania. World War II broke out. Japan was also part of the war in the form of an alliance between Japan, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Romania. Sugihara's work was to keep an eye on the movement of the Soviet and German forces. It was the responsibility of Sugihara to find out if Soviet Russia was plotting an attack on Germany and telling the details of such plans to Berlin and Tokyo.
Envy was all around, along with the fire of retaliation. The Jews were killed in the gas chamber or shot dead. Eventually, many people from Poland and Lithuania appeared before Sugihara. Everyone was Jewish. They needed Exit Visa to go somewhere else from the state of Hitler. Sugihara wanted permission for an available visa at his embassy for three times. The foreign ministry refused to give the permit.
On one side were the many people seeking refuge, and on the other hand, was the security of himself and his family. Sugihara decided after negotiating with his wife, Yukiko, that, if necessary, he would oppose his government. In an interview in 1977, he said, "I used to see through the window day after day, thousands of people have gathered in front of our house. "The day used to pass by, and the night used to arrive, Sugihara went on writing continuously. In September 1940, Sugihara became more desperate due to the closure of the Japanese Embassy in Lithuania.
He brought visa writing stamps and paper, home. With the advantage of having a legal seal of the Japanese government with his name, he wrote one visa after another. He even wrote about 18-20 hours a day! His hand often pained due to writing continuously, but he did not stop. His wife Yukiko used to massage his hand in the night. Sugihara signed about 6000 visas. For one visa, a whole family used to be able to save their lives by moving elsewhere. It was estimated that about 40 thousand people could save their lives, with the help of Sugihara.
In the end, Sugihara had to go away as well. He gave the consulate stamp to a refugee, which allowed more visas to be signed. He threw the visa papers from the train window, in the hope that some people can pick it up. After the war in 1945, Sugihara returned to Japan with his family. Haruki, his seven-year-old boy, died in his early childhood. He did not have a job, and his days were spent in distress. He went on from door to door, selling bulbs. Later, because of knowing the Russian language, he got a job in an export company.
Sugihara's story would not have been known if he had not been found by Joshua Nisri in 1968. He helped Nisri, who had recently stepped into her teenage years during the war, to escape from Poland. Nisri found out about him when he was working in the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo.
A film based on Sugihara's life has been created. A tree has been planted in the name of Sugihara in a museum built for the Holocaust victims, in Jerusalem. Sugihara is one and only 'enemy,' who, despite being Japanese, has been given honour!
Sugihara's son, Nobuki, said, "Dad was a common man. He loved to read and to make gardens. And he loved the children. He always felt like what he did was not anything memorable." Sugihara died in 1986. In an interview in '85, he was asked, "Why, risking his job, and helped the Jews? The answer came, "Any person who looked into the teary eyes of the refugees would have felt the same."
"But if anyone complained? There was a risk!"
The Japanese Vice-Consul during World War did not stop for a moment to answer. "I always believe in one thing. Where there is the issue of saving lives, there is nothing wrong in it. "
Due to Steven Spielberg's 'Shindler's List,' people who do not know the German businessman Oscar Shindler, are tough to be found. Shindler had mixed hands with the Nazis for the sake of alcoholism, laxity, business growth. But this German businessman secretly worked to eradicate ethnic hatred. At the time of the Holocaust, Shindler saved twelve hundred Jews from the fate of the gas chamber. Afterward, he regretted, "If I could sell the gold badges of my Nazi Party, I could save two more Jews!"
Sir Nicolas George Winton was also there. During the Second World War, he saved 669 children of Czechoslovakia from the aggression of the Nazis and moved them to Britain's safe haven. Nobody forgot Shindler. Neither did they forget Nicolas. But the person who they did not remember was the Japanese Chiune Sugihara. He also saved many Jews from Hitler's hand.
Sugihara's father wanted him to be a doctor. But Sugihara was attracted to literature. He studied in English and had been examined by foreign ministry scholarships. He worked in second lieutenant rank in the Imperial Army in Korea and Japan. Afterward, he worked for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He learned Russian and German languages while working in there.
Sugihara was elected Vice Consul of Japan in 1939 in Kaunas, Lithuania. World War II broke out. Japan was also part of the war in the form of an alliance between Japan, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Romania. Sugihara's work was to keep an eye on the movement of the Soviet and German forces. It was the responsibility of Sugihara to find out if Soviet Russia was plotting an attack on Germany and telling the details of such plans to Berlin and Tokyo.
Envy was all around, along with the fire of retaliation. The Jews were killed in the gas chamber or shot dead. Eventually, many people from Poland and Lithuania appeared before Sugihara. Everyone was Jewish. They needed Exit Visa to go somewhere else from the state of Hitler. Sugihara wanted permission for an available visa at his embassy for three times. The foreign ministry refused to give the permit.
On one side were the many people seeking refuge, and on the other hand, was the security of himself and his family. Sugihara decided after negotiating with his wife, Yukiko, that, if necessary, he would oppose his government. In an interview in 1977, he said, "I used to see through the window day after day, thousands of people have gathered in front of our house. "The day used to pass by, and the night used to arrive, Sugihara went on writing continuously. In September 1940, Sugihara became more desperate due to the closure of the Japanese Embassy in Lithuania.
He brought visa writing stamps and paper, home. With the advantage of having a legal seal of the Japanese government with his name, he wrote one visa after another. He even wrote about 18-20 hours a day! His hand often pained due to writing continuously, but he did not stop. His wife Yukiko used to massage his hand in the night. Sugihara signed about 6000 visas. For one visa, a whole family used to be able to save their lives by moving elsewhere. It was estimated that about 40 thousand people could save their lives, with the help of Sugihara.
In the end, Sugihara had to go away as well. He gave the consulate stamp to a refugee, which allowed more visas to be signed. He threw the visa papers from the train window, in the hope that some people can pick it up. After the war in 1945, Sugihara returned to Japan with his family. Haruki, his seven-year-old boy, died in his early childhood. He did not have a job, and his days were spent in distress. He went on from door to door, selling bulbs. Later, because of knowing the Russian language, he got a job in an export company.
Sugihara's story would not have been known if he had not been found by Joshua Nisri in 1968. He helped Nisri, who had recently stepped into her teenage years during the war, to escape from Poland. Nisri found out about him when he was working in the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo.
A film based on Sugihara's life has been created. A tree has been planted in the name of Sugihara in a museum built for the Holocaust victims, in Jerusalem. Sugihara is one and only 'enemy,' who, despite being Japanese, has been given honour!
Sugihara's son, Nobuki, said, "Dad was a common man. He loved to read and to make gardens. And he loved the children. He always felt like what he did was not anything memorable." Sugihara died in 1986. In an interview in '85, he was asked, "Why, risking his job, and helped the Jews? The answer came, "Any person who looked into the teary eyes of the refugees would have felt the same."
"But if anyone complained? There was a risk!"
The Japanese Vice-Consul during World War did not stop for a moment to answer. "I always believe in one thing. Where there is the issue of saving lives, there is nothing wrong in it. "
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