Hiding from the Nazis in Japan

Hiding from the Nazis in Japan

Exactly 85 years ago — in August, 1940, a year after the beginning of World War II — 30-year-old Meyer Zucker received a visa from the Japanese consulate in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It allowed him to leave Europe and spend eight months in Japan, away from the murderous onslaught of Nazism, almost certainly saving his life. Zucker didn’t realize until years later that the man who signed his visa was Chiune Sugihara. Sugihara risked his career g…