witness: Chiune Sugihara, saved 6000 Jew's lives. He was
 a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis
 began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to
 start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He
 hand-wrote them 18 hours a day. The day his consulate
 closed and he had to evacuate, witness claim he was
 stll writing visas and throwing from the train as he
 pulled away.The world didn't knovw what he'd done until
 Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
 Because that's what heroes do
Found on r/memes, feels warm and wholesome.