２９日は「杉原ビザの日」　ユダヤ人救出の功績たたえ―米カリフォルニア州

　【ロサンゼルス時事】第２次大戦中、ナチス・ドイツから迫害を受けたユダヤ人難民に「命のビザ」を発給した日本人外交官、故杉原千畝氏の功績をたたえ、米カリフォルニア州上院は７月２９日を「杉原ビザの日」に制定した。杉原氏が１９４０年のこの日にビザ発給を始めたことにちなんだ。
　制定に動いたボブ・ハーツバーグ議員は２９日、日米文化会館が投稿したユーチューブの動画で「杉原氏は何千もの命を救った。日本人とユダヤ人による素晴らしい物語だ」と語った。（2021/07/30-16:15）

The California State Senate has designated July 29 as "Sugihara Visas Day" to commemorate the achievements of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who issued visas to save thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II.
   The date was the day Sugihara started providing the visas in 1940.
   Senate Majority Leader Robert Hertzberg, who introduced the legislation to commemorate July 29, said in a YouTube video posted by the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center that Sugihara Visas Day gives "credit for the honor, dignity and humanity of Sugihara and his visas for life for the thousands of lives he saved."
   "It's a great story of the relationship between Japanese people and the Jewish people," Hertzberg said.
   When Sugihara was vice consul in Lithuania, he issued transit visas that enabled Jewish refugees from Poland to pass thorough Japan before entering a third country.