YOKOHAMA -- Yukiko Sugihara, 85, still recalls the huge crowd outside the Japanese Consulate in Nazi-occupied Lithuania one cold summer morning in 1940 -- hundreds of European Jews desperate to escape persecution.
"As my husband motioned me to look out of a window one morning, I saw hundreds of people surrounding the consulate and looking at us. They were all poorly dressed and appeared desperate," Sugihara said.
The crowd came to plead for her husband, Consul Chiune Sugihara, to issue them visas to go to Japan.
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