Jan. 27, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President (Donald) Trump issued an executive order banning immigrants and refugees from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. The executive order blocks nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries — Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Iraq — from entering the United States, suspends all refugees admissions […]
UNITED BY COMPASSION: Film premiere leads to historic meeting of descendants tied to heroic Japanese diplomat
September 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
At the dawn of World War II, Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania at the time, saved thousands of lives by going against his country’s wishes to issue transit visas to Jewish refugees trying to escape Lithuania. Descendants of three families of those survivors met Madoka Sugihara, the storied diplomat’s granddaughter, and Keisuke Sugihara, […]
Actor makes documentary on Japanese who helped Jews escape Holocaust
September 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
TOKYO — A London-based Japanese actor has created a short documentary film that sheds light on individuals who helped Jews escape from Nazi persecution as well as those who have worked to see that this history is passed on. “There was a Japanese diplomat who issued visas in defiance of the Japanese government to allow […]
Director of Japanese-Jewish heritage reflects on Japanese diplomat who saved Jewish refugees
September 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Cellin Gluck is not your typical Japanese American. He was actually born in Wakayama Prefecture to a Jewish American father from New York, Jay Gluck, and a Japanese American mother, Sumi Hiramoto Gluck, who was born and raised in Lodi, Calif. His parents met in New York, years after his Nisei mother was incarcerated in […]
Study on ‘Sugihara Survivors’ published in English
August 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
TOKYO — A former official of the semigovernmental Japan National Tourism Organization has issued an English-language version of his research on Jews’ wartime escape from Nazi persecution via Japan. Akira Kitade, 70, initially published the book in Japanese two years ago, based on his study about how people in Japan had played behind-the-scenes roles in […]
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