Holocauste

2000 · réf. 75652 — Washington DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2000. First Edition stated. Presumed First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxi 1 217 1pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations some in color. Timeline. Notes. Further Reading. Index. In slip case. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington D.C. the USHMM provides for the documentation study and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred prevent genocide promote human dignity and strengthen democracy This work was published in connection with the exhibition Flight and Rescue held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington D.C. May 4 2000 to October 21 2001. The "Sugihara Rescue" of 2100 Jews in 1940 is detailed here retracing the unlikely humanitarian alliance between the Netherlands and Japan and the subsequent trans-Siberian journey that saved this fortunate group of Jews. Chiune Sugihara also called Sempo Sugihara or Sugihara Chiune 1 January 1900 - 31 July 1986 was a Japanese government official who served as vice consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania. During the Second World War Sugihara helped some six thousand Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory risking his job and his family's lives. The fleeing Jews were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland and Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland as well as residents of Lithuania. A few decades after the war in 1985 the State of Israel honored Sugihara as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. He is the only Japanese national to have been so honored. Sugihara told the refugees to call him "Sempo" - the Sino-Japanese reading of the Japanese characters of his given name - as it was easier for non-Japanese persons to pronounce. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hardcover