The grandson of one of the 6,000 Jewish people saved by a Japanese embassy official during World War II met with the diplomat's relatives in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Saturday.
"My family was saved thanks to the courage of your father-in-law and grandfather," said 32-year-old Daniel Grynberg, a lawyer from Sydney, as he met the family of Chiune Sugihara. Sugihara was acting consul at the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania and issued visas for Polish Jews in August 1940 that allowed them to escape persecution by Nazi Germany.
Grynberg, his fiancee, Teya Dusseldorp, and Sugihara's relatives met at the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center, which provides information about the Holocaust among Japanese.