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Karen Leon

Karen Leon is a photographer, cartoonist, and illustrator. Her photos regularly accompanied Masha Leon’s columns in The Forward and Tablet. She is currently working on the biography of her mother.

  • Japanese American cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, at center, plays a symphony together with the New York City Opera orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2023, in honor of wartime Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. He disregarded the orders of his superiors and issued visas in 1940 to help Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution as the acting consul in Kaunas, Lithuania.
    Japanese American cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, at center, plays a symphony together with the New York City Opera orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2023, in honor of wartime Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. He disregarded the orders of his superiors and issued visas in 1940 to help Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution as the acting consul in Kaunas, Lithuania.
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    Songs of Sugihara’s Survivors

    Paying musical tribute to the Japanese diplomat who rescued thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

    byKaren Leon
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    Four Sisters, Four Survivors

    A new documentary from ‘Shoah’ director Claude Lanzmann

    byKaren Leon
  • People walk behind barbed wire fences as they visit the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 25, 2015.
    People walk behind barbed wire fences as they visit the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 25, 2015.
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    Using Nazism’s Legacy to Train Young Professionals in Ethics

    The Fellowships at Auschwitz Ethical Leadership Awards program asks pressing moral questions to students of law, business, medicine, journalism, and religion

    byKaren Leon
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    New Hungarian Film Explores Guilt of Those Who Looted the Property of Deported Jews

    In ‘1945,’ parsing the complacency of those who benefited from the Holocaust

    byKaren Leon
  • Winston Churchill speaking at a tree planting ceremony on the site of Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, March 28th, 1921.
    Winston Churchill speaking at a tree planting ceremony on the site of Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, March 28th, 1921.
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    A Mission to Rescue All the Jewish History Captured on Film

    The Foundation For Preserving The Visual History of The Jewish People held its inaugural gala last month in New York. The event showcased the importance of the organization’s mission.

    byKaren Leon
  • Chiune Sugihara and his son Nobuki in the Golan Heights, December, 1969.
    Chiune Sugihara and his son Nobuki in the Golan Heights, December, 1969.
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    Honoring Chiune Sugihara, Righteous Among the Nations

    A ceremony in D.C. paid respect to the Japanese diplomat who saved my mother’s life

    byKaren Leon
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