Chiune Sugihara, diplomat who saved WWII refugees, remembered with exhibit, film
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II, is finally getting his due.
An exhibition devoted to Sugihara and Holocaust victim Anne Frank was mounted in Tokyo this fall, and a movie based on Sugihara’s life, Persona Non Grata, was scheduled for release this month in Japan.
“Sugihara is proof that one person’s choice to take action in the face of evil—whatever the consequences—can make a difference,” said Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
