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Eighty-Five Years in the Making
Sharona
in
Mishpacha
· 14 May
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat, defied orders from Tokyo in 1940 by issuing over 2,000 visas to Lithuanian Jews fleeing the Nazis, including the writer's family.