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The People's Hero
(Jerusalem Post) Gail Lichtman - From March 1938 until May 1940, Dr. Feng Shan Ho, the Chinese consul general in Vienna, issued thousands of visas to Shanghai to Jews desperate to escape the ever-tightening Nazi death vise. One of the first (and very few) diplomats to come to the aid of the Jewish people in Nazi Europe, Ho acted against the instructions of his direct superior, the Chinese ambassador to Berlin, and without the backing of his own government. And he paid for these actions with his career.