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Welcome to the website of the Chiune Sugihara Sempo Museum. The museum celebrates the memory and legacy of my grandfather, whose selfless actions as a diplomat in wartime Europe nearly eight decades ago saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees from slaughter by the Nazis.

It is only in recent years that Chiune's deeds have become more widely known in Japan.

He is now being taught in junior high school curriculums, and material distributed by the Japanese government at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018 featured two full pages dedicated to the remarkable rescue in Lithuania. NPO Chiune Sugihara Visas for Life, which I am honored to serve as chairman, has actively participated in lectures, Holocaust memorials, photographic exhibits and other events at home and abroad.

The family has long maintained a private trove of photos, documents and other items related to Chiune's eventful life.

In particular, Chiune's memoirs, written in his later years at the urging of his