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Leo Melamed

In 1940, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan.

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In Tokyo in March of 1941, he asked his father, Isaac Melamdovich, a mathematics teacher, to explain how the community of Jewish residents in that city had enough money to support the sudden influx of some 3,000 refugees such as themselves.

Wilmette Junior High School

Aaron Dubnow's grandfather, Leo Melamed, a holocaust survivor, and Mr. Walter Reed came to speak during the 2008-2009 school year.

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