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A Japanese Diplomat Saved My Family During WWII

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Victor Gilinsky, son of Medem Sanitorium co-founder Shloyme Gilinski, retells the story of how his family hid out in Lithuania after they fled Poland before getting a travel visa with the help of Japanese Consul Chiune-Sempo Sugihara, one of the Righteous Among the Nations who issued transit visas to Jewish refugees so they could escape to Japan.

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