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In the summer of 1940, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, stationed in Kovno, Lithuania, requested permission to write visas for Jews who wanted to flee Europe with their families. Japan denied his plea, leaving him with a dilemma: obey his government or obey his conscience. Encouraged by his wife, Yukiko, he wrote 2,139 visas, saving thousands of lives.
lyrics
Mister Sugihara spies
Eyes behind the gate
If Tokyo denies his pleas
Escape may come too late
For Jews the world’s a spinning wheel
From Kovno to Japan
The consul wires his appeal
Tokyo halts his plan
With furrowed brow and sleepless eyes
Whose law should he obey?
His hand can save them with his pen
Not a moment to delay
In school he learned “Do much for others”
His mother was a samurai
Master of eight languages
Makes him the perfect spy
Sugihara and his wife
See these men as brothers
Expecting little in return
Doing much for others
With furrowed brow and sleepless eyes
His conscience he’ll obey
His hand will save them with his pen
Not a moment to delay
Steadied by Yukiko, writing
A visa for each in line
The measure of this man’s reply
Two thousand, one hundred thirty-nine
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