Date: 03 December 2020 17:00-19:00 (JST)
Place: ZOOM meeting (Host: Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan)
Webinar Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WvBxSLWLQBm1ZUBZrTNcNg
Chair: Assoc. Prof. David Green (Nagoya University)
Opening Remarks:
Greetings 1: Governor Hideaki OHMURA (Aichi Prefecture)
2: Ambassador Gediminas VARVUOLIS (Lithuania)
3: Ambassador Yaffa BEN-ARI (Israel)
4: Ambassador Ina LEPEL (Germany)
5: Ambassador Paweł MILEWSKI（Poland）
Speaker 1: Dr. Simonas STRELCOVAS (Sugihara House, Kaunas）
“The role of Lithuania in Sugihara’s Rescue Story in 1939-1940”
2: Prof. Rotem KOWNER (Haifa University)
“Yad Vashem and the Decision to Recognize Sugihara
as a Righteous Among the Nations”
3: Prof. Chiharu INABA (Meijo University)
“Jewish Refugees’ Severe Escape from Lithuania to Japan in 1940-41”
Discussant 1: Mr. Toshiaki AKAHANE (Keio University)
2: Prof. Gerhard KREBS (Free University, Berlin)
3: Prof. Ewa PALASZ-RUTKOWSKA (Warsaw University)
