TIL that the Mirs pursuit of the Curaçao/Japan visa option was done against the accepted concensus of the rabbanim/gedolim of the time. Rav chatzkel, in Shanghai, after the murder of all those that they left behind became known to them STILL was not certain that they had done the right thing.
Sugihara (and others involved) shouldn't have been eligible for the chassidie umos haolam award from yad vashem, as the award is for assisting jews under nazi occupation, not soviet.
(Binging yehuda geberers Jewish history soundbite series... bunch of other prospective TIL for people there busting myths about the escape (most of I either knew or sort of surmised already)