Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, known for saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, is facing criticism from an Israeli professor who argues that Sugihara's recognition was orchestrated by Yad Vashem and the Israeli government to please Japan.

"I Have My Mother's Eyes" is a new Canadian chamber opera premiering at the Chutzpah Festival in Vancouver, spotlighting the legacy of Chiune Sugihara, known as "Japan's Schindler," who saved thousands of European Jews during the Holocaust by writing transit visas for them.

Researchers and Sugihara's own grandson have challenged the story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who issued visas to thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Europe during World War II.

During World War II, the Mir Yeshiva students and their teachers were forced to flee Nazi-occupied Poland and Lithuania.

This article discusses ways to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper will be performing A Concert for Sugihara at Carnegie Hall on April 19th to honor Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews by writing visas for them to escape Europe during the Holocaust.

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In Japan, a unique connection exists between the Japanese Christian community and Israel, highlighted by the story of Reverend Makoto Otsuka and his Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama City, just outside Hiroshima.

Alyza D. Lewin shares the story of how her grandmother, Peppy Sternheim Lewin, played a crucial role in rescuing 6,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

In 1998, Akira Kitade, a Japanese man, discovered a photo album belonging to his former boss, Tatsuo Osako, which contained pictures of passengers on the Amakusa-maru ship that Osako worked on in the 1940s.