Today Google Doodle celebrates a humble Japanese diplomat. Chiune Sugihara was posted at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1939 where he saved thousands of people during the Second World War. He and a Dutch diplomat arranged for Polish and Lithuanian Jews to travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway through the Soviet Union, then into Japan before finding safety in the Dutch colony of Curacao in the Caribbean.
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