A concert was held Wednesday to honor a Japanese diplomat who saved Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany during World War II, featuring a cellist with a personal connection to the events.Japanese American cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper and the New York City Opera Orchestra played a symphony composed by Lera Auerbach, an artist whose grandparents survived persecution in Nazi Germany, at Carnegie Hall in New York.Chiune Sugihara, also known as "Japan's Schindler" after Oskar Schindler, the German who provided Jews with a safe haven, disregarded the orders of his superiors and issued visas in 1940…READ FULL ARTICLE
