Escaping Lithuania With The Help of Chiune Sugihara
Judith Elbaum Schumer explains how her family got out of Lithuania during WWII with the help of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jews.
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Saving a life: Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara
When Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul in Lithuania during the Holocaust, saw Jews fleeing persecution gathered in front of his office, he knew what to do. He opened the door and started handing out life-saving visas. Thousands of them. Some 40,000 descendants of these Jewish refugees are alive today thanks to him. This is the story of the man who made it happen.
Chiune Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania
Howard Margol (zl) and Peggy Freedman organized a wonderful heritage trip to Lithuania for many years. Here in an excerpt from my longer video about the 2015 trip. Other segments include sites in Vilnius, Kaunas, the Ziezmariai wooden synagogue, a day in Rokiskis and Panevezys. Stay tuned! Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Group Video Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Memorial Event Mt Zion Jamuary 30 2019 C
From Left: Rabbi Yitzchak Goldtein (Rosh Yeshivah), Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi, in back Chaim Chesler (LIMUD), Nobuki Sugihara, Shlomo Gur (Claims Conference), ?, Esin Sugihara
Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Memorial Event
Held at the Holocaust Cellar (Martef HaShoah)
Mount Zion, Jerusalem
January 30 2019
Chiune Sugihara was Japan's Vice Consul in Kovno, Lithuania during the Holocaust.
He rescued thousands of Jews, including the Mir Yeshivah, despite his Foreign Ministry's instructions - for which he was punished.
The Jews he bravely saved found safety in Shangai during the war.
Chiune Sempo Sugihara Kaunas
Short movie about Chiune Sempo Sugihara remembrance in Kaunas.
Group Video Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Memorial Event Mt Zion Jamuary 30 2019 D
Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara Memorial Event
Held at the Holocaust Cellar (Martef HaShoah)
Mount Zion, Jerusalem
January 30 2019
Chiune Sugihara was Japan's Vice Consul in Kovno, Lithuania during the Holocaust.
He rescued thousands of Jews, including the Mir Yeshivah, despite his Foreign Ministry's instructions - for which he was punished.
The Jews he bravely saved found safety in Shangai during the war.
Madoka Sugihara, the granddaughter of Japanese Schindler Chiune Sugihara, at press event on Sept.
Speaking in advance of San Francisco premiere of Persona Non Grata: The Story of Chiune Sugihara on Sept. 9, 2016.
Chiune Sugihara's House, Kovno, Lithuania 杉原 千畝
Chiune Sugihara's House, Kovno, Lithuania 杉原 千畝
Trailer for SURVIVING HISTORY
SURVIVING HISTORY presents the life stories of seven individuals who survived the Holocaust in Lithuania, where ninety-five percent of the 240,000-strong pre-war Jewish population was annihilated, many at the hands of Lithuanian shooters. The narrators represent a rapidly diminishing community. Today, approximately 2,800 Jews live in what was once known as the Jerusalem of the North. Of this number, there are only one hundred and six ghetto and camp survivors and less than one hundred former partisans and soldiers. In most cases, they are the lone survivors among extended families of over one hundred people to have come through alive. Even today, more than sixty years on from the atrocities, as Vilnius takes on the role of European capitol of culture, these individuals face horrific echoes of the past: a recent Neo-Nazi march through the city, the Jewish community center defaced, last August, by images of Swastikas, smokestacks and gallows, a palpable surge in Anti-Semitic rhetoric. The film explores their stories, taking us into the heart of their memories, but it also looks at the specific time and place in which we encounter them and discovers that which is meaningful to them today. Juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary, the private and the personal, it offers a lyrical, poetic, and, at once, harrowing journey through the core of Lithuanian Jewish life.
(28 min.)
Oma's Story: A Survivor Remembers
Holocaust survivor Miriam Gershwin shares recollections of her experiences in the Kovno ghetto during World War II.
Ceremony & Reception to honor the life of a Sugihara visa survivor & the work of MR. Kitade
[ 2014.11.24 ] Ceremony & Reception to honor the life of a Sugihara visa survivor & the work of MR. Kitade
- Consulate General of Japan in New York:
Visit to Lithuanian Tolerance Musuem 2015
Howard Margol (zl) and Peggy Freedman organized a wonderful heritage trip to Lithuania for many years. Here in an excerpt from my longer video about the 2015 trip. Other segments include Ponar in Vilnius; the Chiune Sugihara house in Kaunas; the Ziezmariai wooden synagogue near Kaunas, and a day in Rokiskis. Stay tuned for more segments.
Sugihara
By Simonas (Simon) Davidavicius
Sugihara house museum Kovno Kaunis Lithuania
Sugihara museum, Kovno, Kaunis, Lithuania
Ronaldas Račinskas (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Collective memory about the Holocaust: Reasons, Challenges and Perspectives.
The Second International Conference Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-communist Countries: Challenges and Opportunities.
Riga,
May, 2013.
George Takei Presents HERO: Chiune Sugihara
Join us for an evening of bridge building when George Takei presents HERO: Chiune Sugihara. Sugihara saved thousands of Jews from the Nazi death camps. We will be uniting our communities in remembrance with a star-studded event. Please help us with a donation at themankindproject.org/sugihara
Student from Sugihara club, food evening [2012-09-08]
Students from Tokyo, Sugira's club visiting Hashi club in Lithuania. Food evening in which we are making Lithuanian dishes.
Asian Righteous Among the Nations (Complete)
HONG KONG, September 21, 2016 — Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat stationed in Kaunas, Lithuania during the Second World War. In this talk, Sugihara's fourth son, Nobuki, recounts his father's heroic actions toward Jewish refugees during this tumultuous period. (56 min., 11 sec.)
Chiune Sugihara Receives 2015 Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award
Diplomats Dr. Feng Shan Ho of China and Chiune Sugihara of Japan received the 2015 Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award given by Holocaust Museum Houston for their efforts to save European Jews during the Holocaust. Edith Hamer, who now lives in Houston, was among those Ho saved.
Lithuanian PM Saulius Skvernelis with Nobuki Sugihara
Lithuanian PM Saulius Skvernelis, Nobuki Sugihara