Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com He was a Dutch businessman and diplomat who issued more than 2,000 visas to Jews in Lithuania in 1940, enabling them to escape Nazi persecution and reach Japan via the Trans-Siberian Railway. He collaborated with Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul who gave transit visas to the refugees, despite not…
The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center has a new exhibit focusing on the parallels between the Japanese-American incarceration in the United States and the Holocaust.Titled “Parallel Barbed Wire”, the exhibit tells the story of two men – Heart Mountain incarceree Clarence Matsumura and Holocaust survivor Solly Ganor.
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is publishing of an updated edition of Douglas Nelson’s Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp.
Classic Holocaust memoir by Solly Ganor tells the story of how he was rescued by former Heart Mountain incarceree Clarence Matsumura has been re-released.