Exhibition on Polish diplomat who saved Jewish refugees opens in Lithuania

The exhibition "Polish Ambassador to Japan Tadeusz Romer and Jewish War Refugees in the Far East" opened at Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania, on Wednesday. According to its organisers, it presents the heroic actions taken by the Polish diplomat in Japan. The exhibition was prepared by Olga Barbasiewicz from the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University, and commissioned by the Polish Institute in Vilnius. "One of the main goals of our research project, implemented by Olga Barbasiewicz, was to show our Lithuanian audience the extraordinary story ... of an eminent Polish diplomat who helped save Jews," said the director of the Polish Institute in Vilnius Marcin Lapczynski.