The Untold Story of Willy Rudolf Foerster – Japan’s Oskar Schindler

For nearly twenty years I was a regular visitor to the Chabad House of Rabbi Binyomin Edery in Omori, Tokyo. Never in my wildest dreams, as I walked there alongĀ  German Dori, which means German Street, did I realize that Nazi secrets were hidden within plain sight. Stately European-style houses should have given me a clue.

And thanks to Google, an innocent search of a few key words–German, Jewish, Holocaust survivor, Japan–led me link by link to the untold story of Willy Foerster. Thanks to Professor Clemens Jochem of the University of Hamburg for permitting me to write up in English this incredible but true story.

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/285496/japans-oskar-schindler?fbclid=IwAR1mijk8BRYi2ZhKnUwKvNBMhCnBut0hw7dVCkY-8sPVQf8IaBhuIs7SZ0I

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I'm a Jerusalem-based artist and writer of a memoir in progress about rediscovering my Jewish roots in Japan.