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25893 Sugihara is an asteroid (also known as a minor planetary body) discovered by William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Beaver observatory. The asteroid was discovered November 19 2000 and is named in honour of Chiune Sugihara a Japanese diplomat who defied orders not to assist asylum-seekers fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe and instead issued thousands of exit visas to Jews attempting to escape the Holocaust in Lithuania during World War II.

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