Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor a hero by the name of Senpo Sugihara. a former Japanese diplomat who sacrificed his budding diplomatic career to save the lives of thousands of fleeing refugees from the horrors of the Nazi death machine. Posted in Lithuania during World War II. Mr. Sugihara risked his life and sacrificed a promising diplomatic career by issuing transit visas against the orders of the Japanese Government. Thousands of trapped and desperate Polish Jews possessing those visas were able to escape persecution via the TransSiberian Railway. Even as he was being transported for defying the orders of his superiors. he enabled a final group of refugees to escape by issuing them visas from the car of his train. His act of courage and his willingness to defy the Immoral and unjust decrees of his government insured the survival. among others. of the entire faculty and student body of Mir Yeshiva. the only European Yeshiva to survive the Holocaust. Zera Warhatting. one of those saved by Mr.
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