This Japanese Man Saved 6,000 Jews — But His Name Lives in Obscurity

He rescued more Jews than Schindler, but he died in poverty

Image by author. Based on a photograph of Chiune Sugihara and his wife.

The most dreadful perpetrator of the Holocaust doesn’t even have a name. He is known only as the Death Dealer. Because of this one man, the Holocaust in Lithuania was more severe than in any other country.