Full name: Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

Author: Ken Mochizuki Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781584301578 1584301570

In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat? The Japanese government denied Sugihara's repeated requests to issue the visas. Unable to ignore the plight of the refugees, he turned to his family. Together they made the crucial decision that saved thousands of lives. Passage to Freedom, based on Hiroki Sugihara's own words, is one of the most important stories to emerge from the ruins of the Holocaust. It is the story of one man's remarkable courage, and the respect between a father and a son who shared the weight of witness and an amazing act of humanity. Similar books: Voyage of the Damned by Gordon Thomas Anne Frank by Josephine Poole Luba by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman 50 Children by Steven Pressman Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren Parallel Journeys by Eleanor H. Ayer Edith's Story by Edith Velmans The Big Lie by Isabella Leitner Hidden Child of the Holocaust by Stacy Cretzmeyer Such Good Girls by R. D. Rosen The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer Born Survivors by Wendy Holden Ten Thousand Children by Anne Fox Final Solution by David Cesarani She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton I Dissent by Debbie Levy Rosa by Nikki Giovanni Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh She Persisted Around the World by Chelsea Clinton