On Thursday 11 February 2021, March of the Living Australia hosted an online event featuring Linda Royal, writer of the film script for 'The Saviour', and daughter and granddaughter of Sugihara Visa recipients; Rabbi Levi Wolff (Central Synagogue, NSW), grandson and one of 300 descendants of a Sugihara visa recipient; and Nobuki Sugihara, the only surviving son of Chiune Sugihara, Righteous Among the Nations, who was offered a scholarship to study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, lived there for 10 Years, speaks fluent Hebrew and considers Israel his homeland.

Linda Royal’s father, Michael Margolin and grandparents fled Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and were saved together with 6,000 other Jewish refugees in Lithuania in 1940 by a Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, who was stationed there. At great personal risk and defying his government, he illegally issued transit visas to Japan to these desperate people, saving them from certain death.

In 1985, Israel honoured Sugihara as one of the Righteous Among Nations for his actions and he is the only Japanese national to be given the honour.

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