Chiune Sugihara

Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat. He served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania during World War II. He was best known for helping about 20,000 Jews leave Lithuania during the Holocaust. He gave them visas to Japan. In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. He was sometimes called the "Japanese Schindler".

Chiune Sugihara
杉原 千畝
Sugihara, before 1945
Born	(1900-01-01)1 January 1900 Kozuchi Town, Empire of Japan (now Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
Died	31 July 1986(1986-07-31) (aged 86) Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Resting place	Kamakura Cemetery
Other names	"Sempo", Sergei Pavlovich Sugihara
Occupation	Vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania
Known for	Rescue of 5,558 Jews during the Holocaust
Spouses	Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova ​ ​ (m. 1918; div. 1935)​ Yukiko Kikuchi ​ (m. 1936)​
Children	4
Awards	Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th Class (1988) Righteous Among the Nations (1984)

Sugihara was born in Yaotsu, Gifu. He was first married to Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova until their divorce in 1935. He was later married to Yukiko Sugihara. They had four sons.

Sugihara died on 31 July 1986 at a hospital in Kamakura. He was 86.

Other websites

• Chiune Sugihara at the Jewish Virtual Library
• Chiune Sugihara Archived 2018-05-15 at the Wayback Machine at Yad Vashem