A Jewish group in Germany honored a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews escape from the Nazis. Chiune Sugihara, who served in the Japanese mission in Lithuania during World War II, was given a prize named after Raoul Wallenberg, the famous Swedish diplomat who helped Jews flee Hungary during the war.
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