Mass Rescuer: Chiune Sugihara
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- During WWII, the Nazi regime sought to exterminate millions of people they saw as inferior. Despite their campaign of horror, those dark days inspired some to act - to risk their lives to save their friends, their neighbors, and even strangers whose lives were at risk through no fault of their own. One of the men who was willing to risk his life and career to save others came from a surprising place - Japan. The story of Chiune Sugihara, the vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania, and how his efforts saved innocent lives, is history that deserves to be remembered.
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My maternal grandparents were among those he saved. They spent the war in Shanghai and were blessed to come to America afterwards. If his family see this, we too have become many more than the two people he originally saved and are forever grateful for his bravery and kindness!
If you believe in God, I would suggest praying for whoever his descendants are during Covid to survive and be healthy. That is really the best we can do.
That's wild! 😮
He was and always will be a true hero.
Forever thank you, Sugihara. You are rightfully seated among the righteous. A lighted beacon in the darkest days of humanity.
Thank you so much for perpetuating the memory of Chiune Sugihara. A man who did what he knew was right, even though he knew it would bring him hardship. When those hardships came, he did not complain, but got on and did what he had to do to provide for his family. I often think of his example when I have to make difficult decisions in my life.
That is the very definition of a hero.
History that deserves to be remembered indeed. Oh! The humanity!
:) him and only a few of his kind saw them as human
Another fantastic piece of history that should be taught in every school.
Chiune Sugihara is always born to be a Japanese supehero. STRAIGHT UP 😎😎💯💯🔥🔥👍👍
A square in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel was dedicated to Sugihara on Monday.
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."
See this man did the right thing for everyone who needed help and a chance!
Drink plenty of clean water for your problem
The last line, "I am thirty seven people", made me cry. Beautiful story of a beautiful person
This story really is history that needs to be remembered!
Remembered and emulated, we have many people that have been fleeing inhumane circumstances in south America in recent times only to be met by cruelty from little people in position of power, wrapped in so called Christianity
If anyone wants a good example of how to be a good, strong human being, Sugihara would be a great choice.
He was a great choice.
Many today face far less punishment if they disobey a superior’s cruel orders.
They still cannot handle doing what they know is morally righteous.
This is why my town is so corrupt, poor, and oppressed. They cannot fathom why the crime and homelessness increase?
I am bewildered that our own academia is so pitiful compared to a simple youtubers teaching...Thank you for showing us the Schindler from japan
These are the heros you never hear about, but deserve to be known
Observing your nom de plume, I think you might find a video on UA-cam by the fat electrician interesting; his 3-minute take on the gurkhas. Someone informative and largely amusing, completely entertaining.
@@HM2SGT I might look that up, thanks!
"There is no limit to the good a man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit". Sorry, can't remember the author of that quote.
@Kabuki Kitsune They made a couple movies about him
@Kabuki Kitsune That man was also a hero as far as I'm concerned.
9:51 “I acted out of my sense of human justice and my love for humankind.” Thoughts behind a hero’s actions. This moved me. And at the end, when one man said that he owed his gratitude and that he was “37 people”. Can you imagine that number multiplied by the descendants of all of the people who escaped on one of Sugihara’s visas?
There was a video (pretty sure on youtube) who performed a genealogy search on the survivors of 10 people who saved others during the holocaust and how many descendents there was up to the time of the video. It was remarkable.
This is why Judaism states that "He who saves one life has saved a nation"
@@SafetySpooon I like that!!!
@@newname4785 that is amazing that someone took the time to educate the rest of us! Thank you for sharing that!
"If I had obeyed my Emperor...I would have been disobeying my God" - Chiune Sugihara
A truly beautiful quote! Thank you !
Question: is this quote true??? 2 doubts: Sugihara disobeyed a telegram from his own ministry, because he believed the opinions are divided. As to perception, he follow the best interest of his ministry, his country and his Emperor. Moreover, he was Buddhists, so no God believer. Reality check: FAKE
@@alexandermalinowski4277 I don't know if the first half of what you're saying is true, nor am I even entirely sure that what you wrote is coherent or makes any pretence of coherence.
However, regarding his religious convictions, I can assure you that Chiune converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity during his time in Harbin, when he served in the Manchurian Foreign Office. That made him a believer in the Christian God, despite being born in a borrowed Buddhist temple.
@@henriquebraga5266 Probably he didn’t convert, he just convert to marry a Russian girl.
Sorry Sugihara said "if obeyed to the government" not to the emperor. The fact that the emperor then absolutely could not stand Hitler for his racism. Not that the emperor himself could make military decisions, he thought it was insult to Japan, if you know imperial family and Japanese people's close connection to ancient Israel.
3 out of my great grandparents were saved by Sugihara. They stayed in the Shanghai ghetto
This is certainly a history that deserves to be remembered and it's great to see it being told!
Personally, I like how you touched on the peculiar topic of Polish-Japanese relations during the war. One aspect that wasn't mentioned was that since Japan continued to recognise the Polish Government-in-exile and maintain diplomatic relations with it, the Jewish refugees that reached Japan or Shanghai (most of them Polish citizens prior to the war) could count on the help of the Polish ambassador in Tokyo, Tadeusz Romer.
The ebb and flow of history is never black & white.Good people are good people,even at the most complex of politics or warfare.
I love the Orthodox Christian icon of Saint Chiune Sugihara. Thanks, Lance.
To provide aid to another that is in need is a sign of a true, good heart. Now more than ever do we need people like Chiune Sugihara. HG, you have provided me time to pause and think. Thank you.
His son and family were honoured in Jerusalem yesterday at the site of a park dedicated in his father's name.
Given how racist Imperial Japanese thinking at the time could be (there are some excellent Mark Felton videos on this), this story is all the more remarkable. I wonder if Sugihara's time in Harbin influenced his thinking about Jews, as there is a Jewish population there nearly as ancient as that of Kaifeng. This story brings to mind the book War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by the long time war correspondent Chris Hedges who points out that when a group of people weaponizes their rhetoric, the next thing they lose is their humanity, and then shortly after their physical lives. The few who manage to resist weaponizing their language are often the ones who keep their humanity, and save others from the ensuing war.
I learned about him only a week ago when a friend sent me an article on his life. Amazing how the internet still can spread good stories quickly amidst its usual noise.
He is the Japanese version of Oskar Schindler...maybe someone can tell Steven Spielberg to make a movie about this fellow....it would make good watching.
My late wife grew up in post-war Tokyo and knew Sugihara's son, whom she went to school with. The mother ran a peddling stall during the years Sugihara was "working" in the Soviet Union. In fact he was hovered up by NKVD when the Iron Curtain fell in eastern Europe and was being detained in a penal colony for his espionage
Dang. They sent him to the Gulag? That is harsh but not a surprise.
Thank you. When your upload becomes available I don't know what I'm going to get, but I do know I'm going to like it. It's like Christmas morning 3 days a week with the history guy!
My favorite three days a week!
Imagine a farmer that during the war gave 90% of his crop yields to the war effort, or a community of farmers that did that exact thing, and did it without compensation from a government, and that never took a farm subsidy, and that lived outside of the large cities and worked their own farms, those people never get recognized for what they did, nor did they ask, a group of ladies in churches that made blankets and clothing of all kinds for the poor and sent those things to religious groups that did missionary work, they get no recognition, why? because they did what was good and right without asking for or expecting recognition. those stories never get seen......thanks for recognizing one small aspect of the goodness of the world.
Well stated, thank you!
Today we need more humanity then ever, because the one's that are trying to dehumanize us are getting stronger each day...
History repeating only with other tools...
@@The_Touring_Jedi the cycle will continue as long as socialism is allowed to infect the minds of tyrants. Sadly I suspect socialism is with the world as long as humans control the planet.
@@thomasechols8834 Isn't that the truth... and yet we live in a country where this ideology has infected our education system and is being taught to our children. As a result of having liberties and living in a free country, not having lived under the yoke of communism or known tyranny and authoritarian dictatorship, we've lost the ability to truly value those very freedoms and liberties. Meanwhile peoples who've lived under that tyranny and experienced communism first hand are looking at our youth who are openly advocating for such a government are totally confused as to why an entire generation of people from America, a supposedly freedom loving democracy, are advocating for the type of governance that they escaped and detest.
Well said
It is a pity that you didn’t mention that he didn’t work alone, he work closely with the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk to give visas to Curaçao to Jewish refugees.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, portuguese consul to Bordeaux, France, also passed as many visas as he could to whomever asked, against official orders from the portuguese fascist dictatorship. He was sacked, persecuted, died in poverty, his large family struggling. True heroes.
🤔 Indeed. I have read a biography of Aristides de Sousa Mendes. It was inspirational and restored my hope for humanity, at least while reading it. The way the Salazar dictatorship treated Aristides was both cruel and vengeful. I hope that his name is recognised and celebrated in Portugal. Aristides de Sousa Mendes 💐 Righteous Among Nations.
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat After the 1974 Revolution, his memory was recovered. He was now admitted in the National Pantheon.
In the darkest hours of human history, it's single candle like these that gives hope, to hundreds and thousands. Great episode THG!!!
The History Guy needs to do the history of German Army Major Karl Plagge who ran a military vehicle repair facility in Lithuania where he sheltered Jews and their families from the SS. He saved hundreds of Lithuanian and Polish Jews.
There is a children’s book about this gentleman called Passage to Freedom by Ken Mochizuki. I’d never heard of this gentleman until I encountered this book as an elementary schoolteacher. It was included in a reading textbook.
Thank you Sir for bringing to everyone’s attention a Hero who deserves recognition to the entire world
In the face of tyranny The strong willed can protect the weak.
Same we have today...the one that did not got the jab are considered parasites in modern Western Europe and the rest of the World...I hope we won't let history repeats again...
" I am only one. But I am one" And if Chiune Sugihara was an army the world may be a better place now.
Chiune Sugihara is definitely a great person. Thank you.
May his name (and all others who resisted evil) always be remembered.
There’s also Raoul Wallenberg from Sweden who saved many thousands of Jews but disappeared at the end of the war. He is believed to have died in 1947 at the notorious Lubyanka Prison.
There's also Sousa Mendes from Portugal : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes
Important to note that he worked in Machuria/Manchukwo as an Imperialist Diplomat, administrating the brutal, murderous, Japanese occupation, oppression and exploitation of Manchuria. This narrative understates his role in a genocidal regime, on par with the NAZIs.
A true hero. A compassionate human who should be taught to all children as an example of doing the right thing in the face of adversity.
I'm proud of him as Japanese.
I live in the US and have met nice Jewish people.
We Japanese are very kind and hospitable therefore, please visit our country.
Sadly, there are only a few who turn down the Kookaid as the mob mentality is powerful in human beings. And fewer still who have the power to act. Their actions do not redeem the evil of the mob but demonstrate nonetheless the one thing that remained in Pandora's Box after all the horrors had been unleashed: hope.
A true hero and humanitarian someone who should be remembered =)
I believe that some people act and some hide, Chiune Sugihara was one of the people that acted and we are lucky that he was in the right place at the right time to do so...
"I am 37 people." Profound.
He was in fact a manchurian officer during occupied china before he went to Nazi Germany. He quit his job out of protest of mistreatment of chinese people by the japanese army.
>be the one Japanese government employee during WWII who actually adhered to the tenets of Bushido and conducted himself honorably
>get shit on for the rest of your life for doing so
Too few people had his level of humanity. May his name be a blessing to all
Is there any higher honor than Righteous Among Nations?
I am surprised this video does not mention Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Lituania, who started the whole thing. He provided "visa" for the destination country, the Carribean island of Curacao which at the time was a territory of the Netherlands. With this stamp in their passport the refugees could go to Sugihara for their transit visa. You can see in the video Sugihara's stamp which mentions Curacao and other Dutch possessions as the destination. If you want to know more, the Guardian published an article about the belated recognition of Zwartendijk on Sunday 26 Sep 2021.
I just want to know what kind of person could give a dislike to such wonderful content. I am constantly amazed at the ignorance of some people
Wow , that’s an amazing story . It’s also interesting that his original last name is phonetically the same as the Jewish name for God.
The historical fact of Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichiro, who saved many Jews and is listed in the "Golden Book," is not well known. It is documented in the Jewish community that Lieutenant General Higuchi saved 20,000 Jews, far more than the 6,000 Jews that Sugihara is said to have saved.
Meanwhile, in Southlake Texas, a school curriculum director issued instructions that anyone teaching schoolchildren from books about the Holocaust must include a book or books with an "opposing perspective".
Teaching "alternate facts". So sad for those children.
Hopefully , when they grow older, they will discover THG.
Wonderful. Either they get deniers or those who agree. "Deep in the heart of Texas..." /s
@@tygrkhat4087, sadly, the school administrator did *not* mean that they should teach about people with good hearts who opposed the Nazis in their genocidal endeavor and helped Jews to escape, despite personal risk. That's the only "opposing perspective" that children should receive on this subject: the necessity of opposing bigotry and injustice even when it's inconvenient or perhaps even dangerous.
Shame on the parents for allowing such director to keep his job.
Yeah horrifying at first glance, insanely horrifying at second glance
Can't stop my tears... never forget evil but also never forget that when darkness is prevailing a little light can shine through.
As a Lithuanian, I knew very little about this man & what he did but this video was very insightful & his story definitely deserves to be remembered. Thank you for telling this nearly forgotten piece of history & for living up to your name as The History Guy.
This is what a hero is. A uniform and or a badge and gun does NOT make someone a hero. And if you consider yourself a hero, you're NOT one.
War usually brings out the worst in people, but sometimes, just sometimes, it brings out the very best.
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Can you please do a video about Gilberto Bosques, also known as the Mexican Oskar Schindler, he was a great man who saved thousands of Jews.
I have known about him since I was the child. The Sugihara house in Kaunas is located not too far from a place I grew up. He is an underrated hero, who did so much to save people. Person like him deserves to be known and remembered.
Portuguese comsul at Bordeaux - Aristides de Sousa Mendes saved Thousands of jews same way under german occupation. Would ne nice a History guy episode of also this not much spoken hero. He and his family paid highly foe his stance.
People like these bring a tear to my eye. They did what they could and saved lives, and for that, I salute them.
There's more, of these like a master forger who set aside "his talent" in order to save a few Jewish people, I remember reading about that one myself, and I discovered a Muslim cleric who saw the Jews as his Jewish brethren and an Olympic Italian cyclic who also saved a few Jewish people s well,. they're all worth being remembered
I would love to know their stories, too. These are real heroes (I do not use this word lightly as in today's society).
One of your best unknown stories that definitely needs to be remembered, great job 👍
A wonderful and touching story, how many lives this one man impacted, generations of people who would have never existed but for the sympathy felt by one soul.I am moved to tears by the humanity, like the man said at the end, "I am 37 people...."
At the 1100 minutes mark....stop and look at the little girl!! Imagine the fear she experienced, then the HOPE she had now living in japan. Thank you sir...you won't be forgotten
Great man. Thank you for bringing him too our attention.
I truly love this man. He needs a posthumous nobel peace prize. Sugihara deserves to be remembered. HERO!!!!!
Chiune Sugihara's story reminds me of that German diplomat who saved many Chinese when the Imperial Japanese Army destroyed Nanking.
John Rabe
It's funny how real heros never think of themselves as heros. There is a lesson in that.
Oh Wow! I vaguely remember other stories of Japanese officiodoing something like this. Are those true, or am I misremembering?
Yes as the video stated there was sort of an official policy to accept refugees partly to gain access to their skills and resources but also to build international favor. Some officials personally did more than others, with Sugihara really going out of his way to help.
Dr. Ho Feng Shan, a who worked for the Chinese consulate in Austria, did something similar. The artist Peter Max was one of the lives he saved. So, yes, there are others like him.
You know, history book are full of men styled (oft-times self-styled as well) as "great men". But Mr. Sugihara stands out as one who is truly deserving of that appellation: A Great Man.
THANK YOU, HISTORY GUY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS HISTORY (UNKNOWN TO ME).
YOU ARE FANTASTIC.
Before the video -- I've heard of Sugihara, I'm familiar with what he did, I'd like to learn more, this might be interesting.
After the video -- Wow, I had no idea ... !
Chiune Sugihara is very much the counterpart of John Rabe and Georg Rosen, Germans (and the former an actual Nazi party member) who were major figures in creating a protected zone in Nanjing to protect against atrocities being committed against Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army.
The same thing to my mind when I first read about him.
I only hope when I'm tested my convictions will pass.
I first learned of Sugihara through my love of music. The American band Savatage included a song titled "Chance" on an album released in 1994, the lyrics having been inspired by Chiune's story. Savatage still performs the song in their current form, as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Definitely worth checking out.
Thank you so much for making this episode. Few things are as inspiring as an individual with the courage to do what's right, regardless of the risk.
I didn’t know about this wonderful man until today. I can only hope that I would have such courage if I was in his place. We seriously need examples such as him right now, when so many seem to have lost themselves to hate. Thank you so much for introducing him to us. 🐝❤️🤗
We have these same people today, but the Internet and 'Sensationalist News' has made more money touting the horror and depravity of man, rather than the everyday 'Heroism' of the 'Helpers'. I know we need to improve things, but it's good to hear positivity for a change...
Naturally, I immediately thought of his mirror image, John Rabe, the Nazi who saved so many in Nanking. Their posting in a foreign city allowed them to see the inhumanity unclouded by local prejudice; their peculiar position allowed them to be effective saviors.
why would a Nazi save lives?
This was a saint, everyone should strive to be so humane to those they cross paths with
It's sad that acts of kindness and fairness are the exceptions to general human response for the poor and downtrodden.
There have been so many unsung heroes in history. Often when don't find out about them until they pass. Nowadays, losers like to set up a video of themselves doing something good like buying a homeless man a donut, just to put it on UA-cam and get likes. Yet Sugihara, a real hero, didn't give a rat's ass about fame. He was truly a wonderful man. I wish I had met him and thanked him.
Wonderful story! REAL people with normal lives…who did extraordinary things! Have you heard of Corrie ten Boom? She was a middle-aged watchmaker who led the Dutch resistance and rescued 800 Jews. Another unlikely hero of WWII.
Many good people did what they could to stand against evil. Some at a high cost they were willing to pay.
Courage knows but one home , the heart.
It is wonderful to see this story but it is only half of it. Chiune Sugihara cooperated with the Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk. He issued 'visas' to Curacao on the strength of which Chiune issued his. The story is told in more detail in The Just by Jan Brokken. Jan Zwartendijk was also reprimanded by his government when the story came out in '63. Just goes to show no good deed goes unpunished.
Sugihara is one of those people who are worthy of emulation ... my own declared hero is Jonas Salk, another of those kinds of people who does not seek fame or fortune, just seeks to save the lives of other people, ones he did not have personal relationships with. Quiet heroes are the ones who matter most, whether they be known or unknown.
Thank you for sharing this deeply moral human being with me, History Guy.
I've never understood why neither Salk nor Sabin got a Nobel Prize.
It’s so sad that he became a door-to-door lightbulb salesman later in his life, but at the same time very poetic… because every superhero needs a secret identity.
It's obvious--he didn't do it to become rich and famous.
Fabulous! More people are being brought to light who saved so many.
Thank you THG! It's nice to know that in a world gone mad and even if the madness is government policy, there are those who not only think it's not right but have the strength to do something about it!
Thank you. Learning more about people who are "Righteous among the Nations" is always a good thing
*Chiune Sugihara (Monday, 1 January 1900 - Thursday, 31 July 1986) needs to be remembered via a movie like Oskar Schindler (Tuesday, 28 April 1908 - Wednesday, 9 October 1974)* 6:10 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time on Friday, 15 October 2021 Common Era or CE formerly known as Ano Domini or AD
Please give us more heartwarming stories like this. It comforts me in this ugly and violent world.
Please tell us about Shunsaku Kudo as well. Also, hi all the commentators here, check Wikipedia of shunsaku kudo
Too often bad guys like Hitler and Stalin get all the historical notoriety, while the quiet heroes remain unknown. But I believe in Heaven and God's judgement, that all the unsung heroes will be honored with glory, and evil folk who "got away with it" dying on their death beds get their eternal comeuppance.
When The Voice in your head says you should.
You do.
Thank you for another video we didn't know we need to see. Chiune Sugihara and others make liars out of those who say, "I was just doing what I was told".
what a guy to ignore the 'rules' and just keep stamping documents
Has he been recognized by Yad Vashem in Israel?
Yes, and that is mentioned in the conclusion.
(after video) Truly, a hero, and a modest man of great humanity.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel , thank you for making my day brighter with this bit of history sir.