25893 Sugihara is an asteroid (also known as a minor planetary body) discovered by W.K.Y. Yeung at the Desert Beaver observatory. The asteroid was discovered November 19, 2000, and is named in honor of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who defied orders to issue thousands of exit visas to Jews attempting to escape the Holocaust in Lithuania during World War II. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Categories: Stub | Astronomical observatories ... Israeli medal for his memory Chiune Sugihara (杉原千畝 Sugihara Chiune, January 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the World War II when he was a Japanese consul to Lithuania. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II, starting in 1941 and continuing through 1945. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
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A list describing the circumstances of the asteroid's discovery (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~iau/lists/NumberedMPs25501.html)
Chiune Sugihara was born January 1 1900 in Yaotsu, a rural area in Gifu Prefecture of the Chubu region in Japan to a middle-class father, Yoshimizu Sugihara, and Yatsu Sugihara, a samurai-class mother.
Sugihara served as a Consulate General in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1941 in Königsberg and in legation in Bucharest, Romania.
Sugihara survivors began to lobby for inclusion in the Yad Vashem memorial.
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