Escaping Lithuania With The Help of Chiune Sugihara

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  • Опубліковано 12 сер 2013
  • Judith Elbaum Schumer explains how her family got out of Lithuania during WWII with the help of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jews.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 28

  • @jewswhoswingssnakes923
    @jewswhoswingssnakes923 5 років тому +70

    This man is a saint. We all know about Schindler- why don’t we know about this guy? He saved 5 times as many as Schindler.

    • @XinjianMa
      @XinjianMa 2 роки тому +7

      hats off, he is saint. there is another one called Ho Feng-shan, ua-cam.com/video/f8wpDNAjfms/v-deo.html
      they shined the sky in the darkest times

    • @1utube01
      @1utube01 Місяць тому

      Schindler was a German Sugihara, not the other way around....

  • @nh-bw7dc
    @nh-bw7dc 4 роки тому +31

    My grandfather used to tell me that during WWII there were many foreign residents including Jewish people in my hometown Kobe, Japan. There has been a dignified synagogue in Kobe since 1912. Although it experienced a big air-raid by US force, it was rebuilt and is now near my home. Jewish people were very diligent and family-oriented, and always good neighbors, he said.

    • @lehua16
      @lehua16 Рік тому +1

      Yes I think some children attended International school in Kobe called Canadian Academy ( about 150 years old) used to locate in Mikage Kobe. ( now new camp as in Rokko island) I have seen pictures at the school.

  • @honestsignalz
    @honestsignalz 8 років тому +25

    Under-appreciated hero. -Austen

  • @user-mt9bs2wb3q
    @user-mt9bs2wb3q 3 роки тому +19

    日本政府に反いて、人の命を救う。
    すごい信念を持った人だ

  • @ninjaturtlesfan6049
    @ninjaturtlesfan6049 4 роки тому +16

    Sugihara lived in my city Kaunas and we have muzeum in his former house to honer him. Great guy, I'm happy that he lived in Lithuania, but I'm very sad for all the Lithuanian Jews that died

  • @5Mariner
    @5Mariner 10 місяців тому +5

    If only more people had been like Sugihara. 🇯🇵

  • @teliang7441
    @teliang7441 8 років тому +23

    Thank you. What a hero!

  • @yannschonfeld5847
    @yannschonfeld5847 6 років тому +38

    Almost absolutely incredible. But it just takes one good human being to do the right thing.

  • @albertojapson8533
    @albertojapson8533 3 роки тому +16

    THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE A MOVIE OUT OF THIS SO THE WORLD WILL KNOW HOW KIND THIS SUGIHARA WAS,, UNSUNG HERO

    • @daviddoan3815
      @daviddoan3815 3 роки тому +1

      Yes there was one out in 2015. Here is the link to imdb www.imdb.com/title/tt4162012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

    • @cecil123
      @cecil123 3 роки тому +1

      and Sugihara Survivors from 2017

  • @holic_shot
    @holic_shot Рік тому +4

    Thank you for recording this.

  • @TheGoopiestGoopa
    @TheGoopiestGoopa 6 років тому +9

    Like 66
    I read the the book A Special Fate, I love this dude.

  • @tadanorihashimoto1913
    @tadanorihashimoto1913 2 роки тому +7

    The Sugiharas were both Christians. I read that when Chiune's wife saw the Jewish children and people in need at the consulate, verse 2:19 from Lamentations came to her mind. 'Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.' Then when Chiune asked if she would agree for him to issue visas for them, she agreed and said ' I do not know what will happen to us but please issue the visas for them.'

  • @rjaydavid7715
    @rjaydavid7715 8 років тому +17

    wow. much respect to this guy

  • @neptune3569
    @neptune3569 5 років тому +15

    Sugihara was born in the 1st of January, 1900.

  • @esterherschkovich6499
    @esterherschkovich6499 Рік тому +1

    Bless him💐💐Thank you.

  • @juliemerritt5144
    @juliemerritt5144 5 років тому +9

    Hero

  • @danielmeier8321
    @danielmeier8321 2 роки тому +2

    Absolut Hero.

  • @brianspiller9075
    @brianspiller9075 9 місяців тому +1

    I accidentally found the story of Sugihara Google touring the city of Tsuruga-shi, Japan and findingthe Port of Humantiy Tsuruga Museum.

  • @sakanatsuri
    @sakanatsuri 5 років тому +24

    Japanese government was against racial discrimination from day one. Although Germany was an ally with Japan during WW2, Japan helped those people based on the human rights. Japan also saved many Jewish people including small children (Polish people) from Soviet in the east during WW2. His name is 樋口季一郎 Kiichirou Higuchi. He issued visas to those people trapped in Soviet union to escape to Japan, then safely to their country. Hitler was furious but Japan was did it based on the human rights. I am Japanese, and I am proud of them. Their names are on the Golden Book.

    • @torgnydomeij5282
      @torgnydomeij5282 11 місяців тому +2

      But what about Nanking massacre? Or Korean forced prostitution? How was that possible then if human rights were to be respected?

  • @marciashiraishi5891
    @marciashiraishi5891 2 роки тому +2

    "I disobey the government so as not to disobey God." words of this great man