The museum, funded with around $3-million of federal money, opens its doors on Friday
. It features newly acquired artifacts and exhibits previously stored at Toronto’s far smaller Holocaust education centre. Among the new exhibits are reports from The Globe and Mail during the Second World War about the murder of millions of Jews in Germany; the newspaper was one of the few national media outlets to report on the Holocaust in Allied countries.
Daniel Zultek, who fled to Lithuania after Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, was among those saved by Mr. Sugihara in 1940. His certificate, on display in the museum, enabled him to escape war-torn Europe and eventually make it to British Columbia. Nobuki Sugihara told The Globe on Wednesday that his father came to visit him while he was at university, and met two more people he had saved. One was Zorach Warhaftig, who later became one of the signatories of the Israel’s independence declaration and that country’s minister of religion.
“Amid all the darkness of the Holocaust, Chiune Sugihara provided a too-rare source of light,” Mr. Levitt said. “Today, Sugihara’s story serves as a powerful example of the positive difference one individual can make in the lives of others, and how we all have the ability to take action for those in need in the face of evil.”
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