Chiune Sugihara

was a Japanese diplomat. He served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania during World War II. He was best known for helping about 20,000 Jews leave Lithuania during the Holocaust. He gave them visas to Japan. In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. He was sometimes called the "Japanese Schindler".

Sugihara was born in Yaotsu, Gifu. He was first married to Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova until their divorce in 1935. He was later married to Yukiko Sugihara. They had four sons.

Sugihara died on 31 July 1986 at a hospital in Kamakura. He was 86.

References

Other websites

 Chiune Sugihara at the Jewish Virtual Library
 Chiune Sugihara  at Yad Vashem

Category:1900 births
Category:1986 deaths
Category:Disease-related deaths in Japan
Category:Japanese diplomats
Category:Righteous Among the Nations