# The Swiss Schindler
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078 "2018-05-29T18:38:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078/1 "2018-05-29T18:38:08Z")
[Read the story](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/holocaust-jews-survivors-1.4622003) of how Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz saved thousands of Jews.
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### Author:  [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078/2 "2018-05-29T21:17:22Z")
I’ll just add a reply to keep this in circulation, as it’s an interesting read.
Plus I’ll add: another too-little-known hero: [Nicholas Winton - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton)
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078/3 "2018-05-30T04:57:21Z")
Here’s another little known hero. A Japanese “Schindler”:
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> In the summer of 1940, when refugees came to him with bogus visas for Curacao and other Dutch possessions in America, Sugihara decided to facilitate their escape from war-torn Europe. In the absence of clear instructions from Tokyo, he granted 10-day visas for transit through Japan to hundreds of refugees who held Curacao destination visas. Before closing his consulate in the fall of 1940, Sugihara even gave visas to refugees who lacked all travel papers.
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> SOURCE: [Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara | Holocaust Encyclopedia](https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005594)
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078/4 "2018-05-30T06:00:33Z")
I feel like these heroes are the normal, sane people with an actual conscience, and the myriad others who couldn’t (and can’t!) see their way to saving hapless refugees are guilty, guilty, guilty.
ETA the Swiss government initially censured Lutz. WTF.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078/5 "2018-05-30T06:19:28Z")
The Philippines accepted 1300 Jewish refugees, with plans to admit up to 10,000, until the outbreak of war. The refugees fared better under Japanese occupation than they would have in Hitler’s Germany.
> **[How the Philippines saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust | CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/02/world/asia/philippines-jews-wwii/index.html)**
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> A group of European Jews fled the Holocaust in Europe to refuge in the Philippines, only to find themselves in the center of a bloody war in the Pacific.
> **[This woman survived the Holocaust thanks to the Philippines. Now she wants to...](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-08-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/the-unrecognized-righteous-nation-that-saved-1-300-german-jews/0000017f-dc0d-df62-a9ff-dcdf4a890000)**
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swiss-schindler/815078/6 "2018-05-30T08:36:29Z")
Well, if we’re adding to the list, there’s also Frank Foley
[https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/posts/the-spy-who-saved-10-000-jews](https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/posts/the-spy-who-saved-10-000-jews)