![Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul general in Kovno, Lithuania, who in July-August 1940 issued more than 2,000 transit visas for Jewish ... [LCID: 77563]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b4f0423a-1c87-40c2-bcd0-5f05a063796e.jpg)
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul general in Kovno, Lithuania, who in July-August 1940 issued more than 2,000 transit visas for Jewish refugees. Helsinki, Finland, 1937–38.
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