a real amazing story here

[Grapesoda]

He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaust?(or the flu like some GFY assholes seem to think) And He Doesn?t Know They?re Sitting Next To Him.

Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton?s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children?s names and photos. This is a clip of a video where Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people whom he saved 50 years before.


He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaustâ?¦ And He Doesnâ??t Know Theyâ??re Sitting Next To Him.

[TeenCat]

we know they guy and we respect the guy so much here in my country

[Rochard]

Lots of people did lots of things during WWII that was amazing, both good and bad.

Right now I am reading Schindler's List and it's just stunning how absolutely evil and cruel mankind could be.

[TeenCat]

Originally Posted by Rochard

Lots of people did lots of things during WWII that was amazing, both good and bad.

Right now I am reading Schindler's List and it's just stunning how absolutely evil and cruel mankind could be.

not mankind is evil, just few people are evil, just look at putin and his russia ... they have info embargo there, they have just their russia today, watching putin and thinking all he says is right, and once putin attack someone, russians thinks it is all good and will support their leader, because he told them that western countries are evil ... it is not about mankind, but just about some shit fucked up heads

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by Rochard

Right now I am reading Schindler's List and it's just stunning how absolutely evil and cruel mankind could be.

Keep in mind that one's fiction

[JIBCONTENT]

Originally Posted by Rochard

Lots of people did lots of things during WWII that was amazing, both good and bad.

Right now I am reading Schindler's List and it's just stunning how absolutely evil and cruel mankind could be.

Pretty scary.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaust?(or the flu like some GFY assholes seem to think) And He Doesn?t Know They?re Sitting Next To Him.

Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton?s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children?s names and photos. This is a clip of a video where Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people whom he saved 50 years before.


He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaustâ?¦ And He Doesnâ??t Know Theyâ??re Sitting Next To Him.

Wow pretty amazing. I sent the link to my big brother - he'll really like that.

[EngineCash]

WOW... I did not know this fact, but, this man is real hero... Touching story...

[sperbonzo]

I think even fewer people know about this story...

Chiune Sugihara, Japan Diplomat Who Saved 6,000 Jews During Holocaust, Remembered

"Chiune Sugihara, Japan Diplomat Who Saved 6,000 Jews During Holocaust, Remembered



Most Americans know of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Holocaust by hiring Jews to work in his factories and fought Nazi efforts to remove them.

But fewer know about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who disobeyed his government's orders and issued visas that allowed 6,000 Jews to escape from Nazi-occupied territories via Japan.

On Sunday, as Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a growing and widespread community of Jews -- linked by their gratitude toward Sugihara for saving them or family members -- remembers a man once forgotten.

"Without him, many of the most accomplished minds of our world would not exist today. His legacy produced doctors, bankers, lawyers, authors, politicians, even the first Orthodox Jewish Rhodes Scholar," said Richard Salomon, a board member of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. The museum holds artifacts from Sugihara as part of its permanent collection, and will honor him on Sunday along with others who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

Salomon's father, Bernard, received the 299th visa issued by Sugihara, who in 1940 became the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, an area where Polish Jewish refugees had relocated during World War II. As Nazis threatened to invade Lithuania, thousands of Jews surrounded the Japanese consulate and asked for visas to escape. Disobeying his bosses in Japan, Sugihara issued thousands. From July 31 to Aug. 28, 1940, Sugihara and his wife stayed up all night, writing visas.

The Japanese government closed the consulate, located in Kovno. But even as Sugihara's train was about to leave the city, he kept writing visas from his open window. When the train began moving, he gave the visa stamp to a refugee to continue the job.

The refugees typically followed a route that took them via train to Moscow, then via the trans-Siberian railroad to Vladivostok and on to Kobe, Japan. Most stayed in Kobe for a few months, then went to Shanghai, China, and elsewhere. Salomon's father went from Shanghai to India and eventually settled in the U.S, where he met his wife Marian in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Sugihara was transferred to Prague, where he worked in 1941 and 1942, and then to Bucharest, where he worked from 1942 to 1944. When the Soviets invaded Romania, he and his family were taken to a prison camp for 18 months. They returned to Japan in 1946, and a year later, the foreign office told him to resign. Years later, his wife, Yukiko Sugihara, who died in 2008, speculated the forced resignation was because of the unauthorized visas.

Chiune Sugihara, who worked odd jobs after returning to Japan and later was employed by a trading company in Russia, worked in obscurity and never spoke of the visas. He never knew if anything came of them and survivors had no luck finding him. But in 1968, a survivor who had become an Israeli diplomat, Joshua Nishri, finally made contact. In 1985, a year before his death in Tokyo, Israel named Sugihara "Righteous Among the Nations," a title given to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

"There are so many people living today because he took the time and made the effort. It was not easy and it was not a matter of sitting down and saying, 'Here, I'll write you this,'" said Anne Akabori, an author who translated "Visas for Life," Yukiko Sugihara's memoir, and wrote "The Gift of Life," an account of Chiune Sugihara's life.

"And it's been so important for the Japanese people to know there was a person who did whatever he could to lessen the Japanese involvement in the war. He was always for peace," said Akabori, who was friends with the Sugiharas' son, Hiroki Sugihara, who died in 2001, and chairs the Visas for Life Foundation. The organization's mission is to "perpetuate the legacy" of Chiune Sugihara and connect "Sugihara survivors" and their descendents.

The group has documented 2,139 Sugihara visas (many were for entire families). It's unknown exactly how many people can trace their ancestry to a Sugihara survivor, though Akabori's organization estimated it to be more than 100,000. More conservatively, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has estimated that 40,000 people are alive today because of the Sugiharas.

Salomon's son, Mark Salomon, a 23-year-old law student at New York University, said knowing that his family would not have existed without Sugihara has ingrained a lifelong lesson in him about the "power of an individual."

"Most people have this idea that you can't really help the whole world, so what's the point?" said Mark Salomon. But Sugihara showed that "whatever you are doing with yourself, you are having a much broader impact. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest through the trees, but it's important in every aspect of your life to remember you are having an effect and to make it a positive effect.""





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[EonBlue]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

Keep in mind that one's fiction

You are fiction. Bad fiction.

Oskar Schindler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




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[John-ACWM]

Thanks for the link, didn't know about that.

[rogueteens]

Originally Posted by EonBlue

You are fiction. Bad fiction.

Oskar Schindler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




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remember, Wikipedia is fiction too. for example, read up on the history of just about any music genre there, especially the more modern ones and Wikipedia will have you believe that everything originated in America. Wikipedia is biased strongly towards whoever moderates the page you are reading - the mods there really do not have any sense of impartiality.

[EonBlue]

Originally Posted by rogueteens

remember, Wikipedia is fiction too. for example, read up on the history of just about any music genre there, especially the more modern ones and Wikipedia will have you believe that everything originated in America. Wikipedia is biased strongly towards whoever moderates the page you are reading - the mods there really do not have any sense of impartiality.

I am well aware of the shortcomings and problems with Wikipedia. The point is that Schindler is a real historical figure whose actions are well documented and verified by numerous people. He is not a fictional character like the holocaust denier wehateporn suggests.

Amazon.com: Oskar Schindler




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[sarettah]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

Keep in mind that one's fiction

Never seemed to bother you before

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