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Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum

Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
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About Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum

Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum is a museum that indicates the records of Tsuruga Port, located in Kanegasaki Park, Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan. It emphasizes Chiune Sugihara, who stored the lives of many Jewish refugees sooner or later of World War II through issuing transit visas. Tsuruga port grow to be the region they disembarked after their lengthy journey from their Europe. The primary show off covers the facts of Tsuruga Port. Since early times, Tsuruga Port has related Japan to the Asian continent.

Especially starting from the Meiji length to the early Showa period, it loved its heyday by way of serving as a departing point connecting Japan to the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad at Vladivostok. The showcase highlight the sports of Chiune Sugihara also stated as Senpo Sugihara. While he served as an acting consul of Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, he stored the lives of many Jews persecuted by way of Nazis via issuing transit visa, ignoring the directives of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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