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Visit of Mrs. Sugihara
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Toronto Holocaust Museum series
- Special events and projects sub-series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 67; Series 28-18; File 37
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Toronto Holocaust Museum series
- Special events and projects sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 28-18
- File
- 37
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1993
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: col. , ; 10 x 15 cm or smaller
- Admin History/Bio
- Yukiko Sugihara (ca. 1914–2008) was the wife of Chiune Sugihara (1900–1986), Japan's consul in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1940. During the Second World War, Sugihara assisted her husband in issuing 2,139 visas to Jews seeking to escape. Today, Yad Vashem recognizes Mr. Sugihara as Righteous Among the Nations—the only individual of Japanese nationality to hold the distinction. Mrs. Sugihara recorded her experiences in a memoir titled Visas for Life.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a photograph of Yukiko Sugihara being shown the memorial tiles at the Holocaust Centre.
- Name Access
- Sugihara, Yukiko
- Subjects
- Diplomats' spouses
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
- Women authors, Japanese
- Source
- Archival Descriptions