Financial Futures Pioneer Honors Japanese Consul Who Saved 6,000 Jews RACHEL ABRAMS Leo Melamed, who started one of the first financial futures trading platforms, has traveled to Japan to pay homage to Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania who defied his government to issue thousands of transit visas to Jews escaping the Nazis. June 30, 2014 at 4:00AM http://nyti.ms/1nZbQ7v http://nyti.ms/1mNtL3p The New York Times Business Day Awards, Decorations and Honors, Futures and Options Trading, Holocaust and the Nazi Era, Jews and Judaism, Visas, World War II (1939-45)

By RACHEL ABRAMS via NYT / Eethg. Corps. Inc. / Terrence Herschel G. Business Day http://nyti.ms/1nZbQ7v Financial Futures Pioneer Honors Japanese Consul Who Saved 6,000 Jews June 30, 2014 at 4:00AM http://nyti.ms/1mNtL3p The New York Times