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World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper helped create a large-scale symphonic work honoring the heroism of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped thousands of Jews escape World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: Courtesy.

Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust

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Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” World-renowned cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, a half-Japanese convert to Judaism living in Tel Aviv, comes from a samurai background. So did Chiune Sugihara,...
Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi visits Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Aug. 18, 2021. Photo by Yad Vashem/Yossi Ben David.

Japanese foreign minister views Children’s Memorial, honorary tree at Yad Vashem

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Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Motegi toured the current exhibit, “Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust.” He also participated in a memorial ceremony at the...
Chiune Sugihara at his desk in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Honoring the Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from Holocaust

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a virtual event on Monday honored a hero often referred to as the “Japanese Schindler” for helping to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. Chiune...
A 1940 transit visa issued by consul Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese “Oskar Schindler,” in Lithuania. The holder was Czech and used his Czechoslovakian passport, issued to him in 1938. He managed to escape to Poland in 1939 and travel from there to Lithuania. In 1940, he received the visa for travel via Siberia and Japan to Surinam. Source: Wikipedia.

Son of Japanese Holocaust hero discovers father’s memorial destroyed by Beit Shemesh apartments

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The Jewish National Fund was left scrambling to apologize to the son of a former Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, after a memorial grove of trees...

Abe to pay tribute to Japan’s Schindler in Lithuania

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will pay tribute to Chiune Sugihara on Sunday when he visits the two-storey building that housed the consulate where he worked in the Baltic state’s second city Kaunas. Sugihara is thought...