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September 15, 2022       Share:    

Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjjej11jbi

Japanese Travel Agent Honored for Helping Jews in Holocaust

(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Israel and Japan on Monday honored Tatsuo Osako, a Japanese travel agent who helped save Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Osako worked as a travel agent in the Japanese coastal city of Tsuruga between 1940 and 1941 when thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe through the Soviet Union's Vladivostok arrived at the Japanese port by ship. During the war, he helped transport thousands of Jewish refugees to safety and distributed aid money he received from Jewish rescue organizations.

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