How+Chiune+helped+the+Jews

Visas give people the power of leave from country, so Jews people needed their visas to escape from Europe and the power of Nati. In 1940, Chiune Sugihara didn't allow the direction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, which is not allow to give Jews visas easily. Even though he decided to give visas for all Jews, who visited to the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania, and he had issued more than 2139 visas, and more than 6,000 people could leave Europe and after they arrived in Japan, and half of the people went to America or Palestine, other people went to Shanghai.

**Lucill** **e Szepsenwol Camhi** **Born: 1924, Volozhin, Poland**

** My sister and I pushed ourselves into the room with, uh, Mr. Sugihara. He was...he asked us our name. He asked us where our parents were. We told him. My father was not living. My mother has no papers. And he looked very sympathetic at us and he just stamped, gave us the visa right there on the spot. INTERVIEWER: And how did you react? LUCILLE: We got very hysterical. My sister and I got hysterical, started to cry and started to say, "Thank you, thank you," in Polish. And he just raised his hand like saying, it's okay. And that's it. And we went out of the room. **