Books with title Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

Against the order of his government, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania issued thousands of visas to Jewish refugees to help them flee the Nazis during World War II.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 1940, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania issued thousands of visas to Jewish refugees--against the order of his government--to allow them to flee the Nazis.

Tells the story of the Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of many Polish Jews during the Holocaust.

A portrait of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940, explains how he used his powers--against the orders of his own government--to assist thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust, actions that resulted in the imprisonment and disgrace of his entire family.

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