The Lithuanian Jewish Community thanks the organizer of performances of  the opera “Sempo Sugihara: Cherry Blossoms of Hope” Manager Chiaki Hamada of the Tokyo Associates Company, the organizational committee for the opera and composer and conductor Yuki Ando for the masterfully and
sensitively sung opera about an historical personage of great importance to us, to Jews, who rescued thousands of Jews from death in Nazi-occupied Kaunas, Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara.

Thank you for the scenes and melodies which were moving to the point of tears. We thanks the main performers the soloists Tetsuo Onaya, Yuri Shinada and the choir, and the Kristoforas orchestra as well as the Libro choir from Vilnius. Thank you.