Chiune Sugihar Unauthorized Visas In The Holocaust

Supposedly, not as many Americans have heard of the Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws by issuing thousands of unauthorized visas in order to let an accounted for 6,000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced back to Sugihara and other people who protected Jews in the Holocaust will be put on display in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in order for the survivors and their descendants to remember this forgotten soul and show their gratitude for the efforts that protected them and their relatives during the Holocaust; however, Sugihara’s collection of artifacts stays on permanent display all year. If it weren’t for Chiune Sugihara writing unauthorized visas during the Holocaust, many Jewish bloodlines would no …show more content…
This title was given to those who were not of Jewish ethnicity, but risked their lives to keep Jews out of harm’s way during the Holocaust anyways. Board member of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center Richard Salomon, whose father was given the 299th visa written by Sugihara, claimed, “His legacy produced doctors, bankers, lawyers, authors, politicians, even the first Orthodox Jewish Rhodes Scholar.” Anne Akabori, a friend of Sugihara’s son, Hiroki, that helped translate the memoir Sugihara’s wife, Yukiko, wrote called “Visas for Life” says, "There are so many people living today because he took the time and made the effort. It was not easy and it was not a matter of sitting down and saying, 'Here, I 'll write you this.’" Akabori also wrote a narrative of Chiune Sugihara’s life: “The Gift of Life