Sugihara and His Heroic Actions There are many lessons to be learned from Sugihara, among them that not always are the apparent right thing the correct thing to do. Of the many extant heroes, Sugihara is one of the great ones because he risked his life to help others for no reward. He only did what he felt was the right thing to do. Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese consul who risked his life while …showed first 75 words of 1198 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1198 total…six thousand Jews, which was the second largest number of Jews rescued from the war. Work cited The Jewish Virtual Library -Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html Searching for Sugihara -Biographer of Japanese diplomat uncovers a 'conspiracy of goodness' to save Jews San Diego Jewish Press Heritage, June 11, 1999: http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/lithuania/kovno/19990611-kovno_sugihara.htm The Heroism of Chiune Sugihara http://www.remember.org/imagine/sugihara.html