On February 10, the Day of the Diplomatic Worker, in the Hall of the Academic Council of Russian State University for the Humanities, a presentation of the collection of documents “Chiune Sugihara and the Soviet Union: new documents and new perspectives” was held
Rector Bezborodov noted the value of historical and cultural memory. “A huge amount of work has been done by the world's leading archivists. A collection of unique documents has been unearthed,” said the Rector.
The collection was published by Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) jointly with the Russian Holocaust Center. Documents are published in Russian, English and Japanese.
The collection includes documents from the leading archives of Russia as well as those of Japan, Lithuania, Israel and Finland, and most of them are published for the first time.
This book is the result of a joint international project launched in 2012. The editor of the publication, Dr. Ilya Altman, Professor at RSUH, Director of the International Center for the History of the Holocaust and Genocides of RSUH, said: “The Transsib Sugihara visa holders went from Moscow to the Far East (there were no more than 2,500 of them, and not 6,000, as previously thought)”.
The presentation was attended by Mr. Ronen Kraus, Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the Embassy of the State of Israel in Russia, Mr. Vladimir Tarasov, Director of the RGVA, as well as heads and employees of the archives who had examined the documents, diplomats, students and teachers of RSUH.
