Chiune Sugihara
I just watched the PBS documentary "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness" for the second time in a few months on TV tonight.
Chiune Sugihara saved thousands of Jewish lives during WWII whilst serving as Japanese consul in Lithuania by issuing transit visas against instructions from his home office in Japan. After returning to Japan at the completion of the war & losing his diplomatic post, he lived in obscurity in Russia for many years & refused all assistance from those he had helped. Many years later, one of those he saved waited 4 years to meet him to ask why he took such tremendous risks to help those he didn't know. He said:
"In life, do what's right because it's right, then leave it alone".
An amazing guy..