"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.

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.