CHIUNE SUGIHARA, a Japanese vice-consul who saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing transit visas, is being honoured in two upcoming events in Sydney.
Sugihara was named to the Righteous Among the Nations — a group honoured by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust — in 1985, for which he and others in the group will be acknowledged in a new exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum on December 6.
The exhibition, which recognises 10 Righteous members with Australian connections, is a travelling feature that originated at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem.
Additionally, on December 5 there will be a monodrama about Sugihara’s life at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Randwick. The play, titled The Decision: Visa for Living, will star Shingo Misawa, who has been performing the show around the world for more than a decade.
Read the full article by Alex Rozier in The Wentworth Courier.