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Chiune Sugihara and his wife, Yukiko.

In 1940, Chiune Sugihara was the Consul General for Japan in Lithuania. Thousands of Jews fleeing Poland came to his door seeking visas to help them escape.

Defying orders of the Japanese military government, and risking his life and career, Sugihara wrote over 2,000 visas for life, saving more than 6,000 lives during the Holocaust.
2 posted on 07/22/2011 1:08:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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Dr. He Fengshan (Feng Shan Ho), Chinese Consul General in Vienna, Austria from 1938 to 1940, was one of the first diplomats to save Jews by issuing them life-saving visas to escape the Holocaust.

He was responsible for saving thousands of Jews in Nazioccupied Austria in 1938 and 1939, yet he was completed unknown, even by the people whom he saved.
3 posted on 07/22/2011 1:12:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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