and genocide. During the Holocaust, five distinguished people risked their livelihood, families, jobs, careers, and lives to help the Jews. These were the Righteous Gentiles. One Righteous Gentile who stood out from the others was Sempo Sugihara. Sempo Sugihara was a Japanese Consul General who was stationed to work in Kaunas, Lithuania, in the beginning of the Nazi occupation in the 1940’s (Greene Ron). He found that the Jews living in Lithuania were perplexed and somewhat unknowing of what was
camps. He purchased and acquired several ammunition and enamelware factories whereupon he transported Jews he purchased from the camps in order to rescue them liquidation (1994). The full version of the aforementioned article by PBS describes Chiune Sugihara a foreign ambassador for the Japanese government who rescued Jews in his own way during
their way to help victims of this time. Their bravery was often met with consequences, normally death, however some prevailed. Among these people is a man named Chiune Sugihara. Sugihara saved thousands of people during that desolate time period and due to that he is and always will be considered a hero of the holocaust. Chiune Sugihara was born in Gifu Prefecture of Honshu Island, A bit north of Nagoya, ion January first 1900. He had graduated from Harbin Gakuen, a training center for experts
Chiune Sugihara was a man that saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania. Sugihara was a man that did the right thing even when he was commanded not to by his own government. He is a person who would put everything on the line to save people. This is the story of Chiune Sugihara. Chiune Sugihara was born January 1, 1900 in the rural town of Yaotsu. He was born into a traditional samurai family. His mother hailed from a long line of samurai. Sugihara grew up under the Bushido Code, which was a tradition
Imagine a single drop of water. All humans need water to survive, yet if a person possess too little water they will surely perish. Possessing too much water however, leads to calamities like floods. Pride itself is much like water; too much of it is an obnoxious behavior yet too little is detrimental to one’s self-esteem. Nowadays, modern-day society views pride as something dreadful yet America as a whole needs to realize justified pride in the right amount is an exemplary trait to have. Modern-day
The importance of visiting the Holocaust Museum Throughout history individuals from different societies have had their rights restricted by others to the point where genocides have been committed. These genocides did not erupt in one day, but rather gradually, which normalized the process. Initially placing individuals into categories which are considered inferior creates circumstances conducive for genocide. Genocides require many factors to come into play, but throughout history, we have seen
Human worth is shown through trying to save as many people as possible, like Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and Chiune Sugihara did and remembering the people that died. In “Violins of Hope,” David Russell explains “...each carries out a different playing style of its previous owner” (9 Russell). Russell is saying that each violin is unique to the person who played it
Passive Optimism In 1939, WWII began when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party invaded Poland, causing six million Jewish people to fear for their lives. This fear first began when the Nazis made the Jewish people sign a census and carry Identification Cards. They also made them keep a Star of David on their clothes so that they could be easily identifiable. And by forcing them to live in horrendous ghettos, they could keep them controlled until they were sent of to the extermination camps run by the