Casablanca of the North : refugees and rescuers in Kaunas 1939-1940 / editor in chief, Linas Venclauskas.

"Vytautas Magnus University, Sugihara Diplomats for Life Foundation"--Title page.

Includes papers from a conference held in May 2016 at Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Includes bibliographical references.

A look from the threshold: refugees, rescuers and research -- Jews and Lithuanians on the eve of the Holocaust 1939-1940 / Saulius Sužiedė̇lis -- State security department reports on Lithuanian antisemitism 1939-1940: their nature, intensity and contents / Linas Venclauskas -- Refugees: between myth and reality / Simonas Strelcovas -- Poles and Jews in Vilnius region in 1939-1941 / -- Andrzej Żbikowski -- Autumn 1939 - the Vilnius question and the case of Lithuanian Belarusians / Tomasz Błaszczak --The Suwałki triangle. A window into the genocidal future / Šarūnas Liekis -- The position of Lithuania in the Japanese-German relationship: cooperation between Kazys Škirpa and Hiroshi Oshima in 1935-1939 / Simonas Jazavita -- Germany and Sugihara Chiune: Japanese-Polish intelligence cooperation and counter-intelligence / Gerhard Krebs -- The issuance of visas to war refugees by Chiune Sugihara as reflected in the documents stored in Russian archives / Ilya Altman -- The Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer - a rescuer of refugees in Tokyo / Ewa Pałasz-Rurkowska -- The reception of Sugihara Chiune in Israel / Rotem Kowner -- Documents related to Visas for Life and historiography of Chiune Sugihara / Chiharu Inaba -- Philippine visas-for-Jews from the perspective of the unanswered letters of 1939 to President Quezon / Ber Kotlerman.