Vida Pulkauninkienė, coordinator of the Tolerance Education Center at the Dukstyna Primary School in Ukmergė (Vilkomir), and a group of students from the Center visited the Sugihara House museum in Kaunas May 15. They viewed the memorial exhibit there, a…
UN Marks Holocaust Day with Sugihara Presentation
The film Persona Non Grata: The Chiune Sugihara Story (2014) was shown at the United Nations in New York to January 25 as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations. Lithuania’s permanent representative to the UN Raimonda Murmokaitë spoke at…
The Kaunas of Chiune Sugihara as Casablanca del Norte
lrytas.lt Japan is a market of 125 million tourists. Kaunas is attractive as a destination for them because of the memory of Righteous Gentile Chiune Sugihara. Much has been done, but much more needs to be done, including presenting Kaunas…
New Book about Sugihara by Lithuanian in Japanese
lzinios.lt Next year a new book about Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul in Lithuania and rescuer of thousands of Jews, is scheduled to be published in Japan. The author is Dr. Simonas Strelcovas, historian and professor at Šiauliai University in Lithuania…
Long Awaited Changes Come to Sugihara House
Long-awaited renovation work has finally begun at the museum set up at the house and office of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas, Lithuania. So far renovation is going on inside the house. The façade also requires repair, but there…
Lithuania Pledges Support to Japan’s Bid to Include Sugihara Documents on UN Register
VILNIUS, March 4, BNS–Lithuania will support a Japanese application to include the documents issued by its vice-consul Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas in the UNESCO Memory of the World Program. “Lithuania supports the initiative. Sugihara’s heroic deed must be remembered, immortalized…
When Czesław Miłosz Met Chiune Sugihara, Sort of
by Geoff Vasil Czesław Miłosz is sometimes called Lithuania’s Nobel Prize winner, although he never claimed to be Lithuanian. Neither did he call himself Polish exactly. His “national identity” was as complex as that of his uncle, Oskar Miłosz, the…
Sugihara Film Second Only to the New James Bond in Japan
Name-recognition of Lithuania’s second city Kaunas is growing like mushrooms after a heavy spring rain in far-off Japan. The Japanese premiere of the new film about the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, “Persona non Grata: The Chiune Sugihara Story,” took place…
When Chiune Sugihara Celebrated Hanukkah in Lithuania
Hanukkah, 1939. Kaunas. I told him the story of how Judah Maccabee led his men into war against the powerful Greeks, who had defiled the temple, and how their tiny force defeated the much greater armies of Antiochus. Judah and…
Chiune Sugihara Hero of All Humanity, Not Just Japan and Lithuania
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Interview with Chiune Sugihara’s Son Nobuki Sugihara
The Lithuanian version of the Economist IQ publication has published an interview with Nobuki Sugihara, the son of the famous war-time Japanese diplomat who rescued Jews from the Holocaust in Kaunas against instructions from his ministry. The youngest Sugihara son…
Lithuania Wants Chiune Sugihara Included on UNESCO Memory of the World Register
Mr. Hajime Furuta, governor of Gifu Prefecture, center, discusses Sugihara initiative. photo courtesy Lithuanian Foreign Ministry. Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevičius met the governor of Gifu Prefecture Hajime Furuta in Vilnius October 30 where Mr. Furuta presented an application made…
Major Holocaust Exhibit in Japan on Righteous Gentile Chiune Sugihara
A major Holocaust exhibition is being held to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater in the Tokyo district of Ikebukuro from October 8 to 13. “The Courage To Remember: The…
Lithuanian envoy at UNESCO certain Sugihara’s work will be listed as Memory of the World
VILNIUS, Oct 05, BNS – As Japan readies to propose the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to include the work of World War II-era Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who rescued Jews from the Holocaust in Lithuania into…
A Moving Encounter at the Lithuanian Jewish Community Dedicated to Sugihara’s “Visas for Life”
The Lithuanian Jewish Community celebrated the 75th anniversary of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara’s mass rescue of Jews through the issuance of “visas for life” recently. It’s been 75 years since the Japanese diplomat saw the atrocities of the Holocaust in…
Lithuanian Post Office Honors Sugihara and Zwartendijk on 75th Anniversary of “Visas for Life”
KAUNAS—The Postal Service of Lithuania today launched two handsomecommemorative envelopes in memory of two celebrated European consuls in Kaunas who helped thousands of Jews obtain visas that enabled them to leave Lithuania during the final year before the Nazi invasion and…
UNESCO Plans to List Sugihara on Memory of the World Registry
The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization UNESCO plans to list Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who saved Jews in Lithuania during World War II on its Memory of the World Registry. The Japanese embassy to Lithuania told Baltic News Service: “Last week…
Chiune Sugihara
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Holocaust Education Workshop for Teachers Held in Kaunas
Lithuania’s International Commission for Assessing the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania and the Centropa organization based in Austria held three days of workshops for teachers to teach the Holocaust in Kaunas from February 19 to…
Suigara House Opens Jan Zwartendijk Room
The Sugihara House museum in Kaunas has opened a special Jan Zartendijk room to celebrate the Dutch Righteous Gentile who worked hand-in-hand with Righteous Gentile Chiune Sugihara to rescue Jews from the impending Holocaust, according to the Russian-language obzor.lt webpage.…