Chiune Sugihara Writing Visas on a Train

Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940 disobeyed Tokyo and issued transit visas to thousands of Jewish refugees. He wrote visas by hand for 18-20 hours daily. When ordered to leave he continued at the train station - writing his final visas standing in the train doorway and tossing the last one to a desperate refugee as the train pulled away. He saved approximately 6,000 lives. After the war he was dismissed from the Foreign Ministry and worked quietly for 20 years.