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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,...