chiune sugihara, the japanese diplomat who saved thousands from the nazis, gets his own movie /

This coming Sunday,January 31, the man who saved my grandfather and thousands of other Jews from the Holocaust will finally be getting his own film adaptation. “Persona Non Grata, and ” which will absorb its U.
S. premiere next week at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival,tells the myth of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul who granted 3500 transit visas to fleeing Lithuanian Jewish refugees–including many yeshiva students–without the approval of his government.
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