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Name: Passage to Freedom : the Sugihara Story
Author: Mochizuki, Ken
ISBN: [978-1-58430-157-8,1-58430-157-0]

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Passage to Freedom : the Sugihara Story

Author: Mochizuki, Ken

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Follett Number: 16555T4
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Lee & Low Books, 1997
Format: 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-58430-157-8
ISBN-10: 1-58430-157-0
Dewey: 940.53
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Diplomats

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986

World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue

Tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania in 1940 who risked the safety of his own family members and put his job on the line by issuing visas to as many as 10,000 Jews who were facing death at the hands of the Nazis.

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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.

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