Kobe

Japan

Kobe, a port city in Japan, became an unexpected wartime refuge for Eastern European Jewry. In 1940-1941, several hundred refugees -- including students and faculty of the Mir Yeshiva -- escaped Lithuania on transit visas issued by the Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, reaching Kobe via the Pacific, where the yeshiva briefly re-established itself before relocating to Shanghai after the outbreak of the Pacific War. The Mir was the only major European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust intact.

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