The Kaunas Jewish Community and the Sugihara Foundation “Visas for Life” invited friends who knew Vladas Varčikas and all who wanted to pay their respects to this gigantic figure, a rescuer of Jews, humanitarian, teacher and violinist, to celebrate hsi…
Kaunas Jewish Community Invites You to a Concert
Location: Great Hall, Vytautas Magnus University, Gimnazijos street No. 7 Time: 3:00 P.M., January 17, 2016 The Kaunas Jewish Community and the Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life” have the pleasure of requesting your attendance at a concert. The concert dedicated…
Lithuanian Jewish Community in Japan Times
from left, vice-mayor Kazunori Nakayama, Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture; Kazuko Shiraishi, ambassador for women, human rights and humanitarian affairs and ambassador in charge of Arctic affairs, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Lithuanian ambassador Egidijus Meilūnas; chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish Community…
Legendary Japanese Diplomat Honored at Lithuanian Embassy in Tokyo
“If you save one life, you save a whole world,” so was the event called held at the Lithuanian embassy in Tokyo to honor Japan’s consul in Lithuania Chiune Sugihara, who issued “visas for life” to Jews fleeing the Holocaust…
News from the Kaunas Community
Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevičius attended an informal discussion of educational projects to familiarize the public and especially the youth with the accomplishments of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and opportunities for cooperation with the Lithuanian Foreign Minsiter at the Sugihara…
Legendary Rescuer of Jews Commemorated in Kaunas
The Japanese vice-consul in Kaunas in 1940 issued a plethora of transit visas for transiting Japan which enabled Jews to escape the horrors of war abroad. It’s notable that Sugihara, even after the consulate was closed, continued to issue “visas…
LJC thankyou
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…
Imagining an Alternate History in Lithuania: A Jew in the Motherland
I, your faithful correspondent from the Colonial Motherland, just spent six days in the other motherland – Lithuania, the place from which most of my ancestors came. Other than a return in the 1990’s by my Holocaust-survivor maternal grandmother, and…
Program of events dedicated to commemorate the nationally designated day of genocide of the Jewish people of Lithuania
A special series of events dedicated to commemorate the nationally designated day of genocide of the Jewish people of Lithuania, with events set to commemorating also the liquidation of the Kaunas (Kovno) and Šiauliai (Shavl) ghettos as well as other…