With the help of a Kenan Grant, Teruyo Shimazu, Instructor in Japanese, traveled to Europe to research Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese ambassador to Poland and Lithuania during World War II.

Sugihara issued transit visas to Jews trying to escape the Axis forces.

Shimazu said, “Lithuania was the last point in Europe before it became the Soviet Union. The Soviets said that they did not want Nazis or Jews in their country, so this was a very important post.”

“[Sugihara]...