Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
by By Mochizuki, Ken and Lee, Dom (ILT)
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction , History , 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.