Son of 'Japanese Schindler' finds forged visas in Lithuanian archive

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Lithuania’s state archive contains forgeries of life-saving visas given to Jews during the Holocaust by late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, his son said.

Nobuki Sugihara, who visited the archives in Vilnius last week, found out that the seals and signatures on some visas said to have been issued by his father differ from those on the Japanese consulate’s official documents, the LETA news agency reported last week.

Some of the forged visas were issued after the closure of the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, the archive said. The report did not say who may have forged the visas, or why and when.

Sugihara lived in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, between 1939 and 1940 and opened Japan’s consulate there.

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1. With some more research Sugihara may qualify as

a "Righteous".

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2. In 1984 Yad Vashem recognized Chiune-Sempo Sugihara as Righteous Among the Nations.

Chiune Sempo Sugihara.

Or were you talking about his son?

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3. Thanks. I had the idea that I had read

about him before but didn't recall his name.

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4. I know you sometimes read what I post in the Jewish Group.

I have posted about him there and, I think, once before in this forum a few years back.