Bread sold to mark 80th anniv. of visas that helped Jews flee Nazis

Bread and cakes commemorating the 80th anniversary of "Visas for Life," issued by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara to help Jews escape from Nazis persecution during World War II, have recently gone on sale in his hometown in central Japan.Often dubbed Japan's Oskar Schindler, the German who provided Jews with a safe haven during the war, Sugihara (1900-1986) issued transit visas for some 6,000 Jews in 1940 while serving as an acting consul to Lithuania, defying an instruction by the Japanese Foreign Ministry not to do so.The baked goods, made by Como Co. in Aichi Prefecture and sold by the…READ FULL ARTICLE