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a blue and white train traveling down train tracks
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The Last Day in Kaunas

After the consulate closed, he kept writing in his hotel. He kept writing on the way to the station. He kept writing on the platform.

Kaunas station, September 4, 1940.

The train is moving now. According to his son, Hiroki, he is still stamping passports and throwing them out the window to the people on the platform.

Then one of the refugees shouts something after him.

"Sugihara! We'll never forget you. I'll surely see you again!"

Then the people holding his visas set out across two continents.
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