Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited his country's former consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania at which Chiune Sugihara issued Japanese visas to around 6,000 Jews escaping Nazi-occupied Poland in WWII.
Electronics giant Philips is behind a book being written by Dutch author Jan Brokken on the story of Jan Zwartendijk, also known as the “Angel of Kaunas” and wants to hear from anyone whose family may have survived the Holocaust because of his help.
Rabbi Levi Wolff describes a Shabbas in Sydney's Central Synagogue...with special visitor Keisuke Sugihara whose great grandfather was responsible for at least 6,000 Jews escaping the Nazi death camps.
