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Japanese foreign minister views Children's Memorial, honorary tree at Yad Vashem

Toshimitsu Motegi tours a photo exhibit, participates in a memorial ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance and saw the tree planted in memory of Chiune Sugihara, who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

by  JNS and ILH Staff
Published on  08-19-2021 17:36
Last modified: 08-19-2021 22:50
Japanese foreign minister views Children's Memorial, honorary tree at Yad VashemEPA / Abir Sultan

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi lays a wreath at the hall of remembrance at Yad Vashem | Photo: EPA / Abir Sultan

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Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Motegi toured the current exhibit, "Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust." He also participated in a memorial ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance and observed the tree planted at the "Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations" in honor of Chiune Sugihara, who died in 1986 at the age of 86.

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Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat, the first to have served in Lithuania, during World War II. On his own initiative, he issued handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. He continued to do so for more than a month until the Japanese consulate was closed. More than 40,000 descendants of those Jews are believed to be alive today because of his courageous actions.

Motegi also viewed the Children's Memorial, which is a tribute to the approximately 1.5 million Jewish children who were murdered during the Holocaust. The visit concluded with his signing the visitor's book at the Holocaust memorial and museum.

"I wish to express my deepest condolences to the victims and pay tribute to those who, guided by their moral compass, did not remain indifferent in the face of the tragedy of the Holocaust. I pray from the bottom of my heart that such a tragedy will never be repeated," he wrote.

 Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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