Gold, Alison Leslie,

A special fate : Chiune Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust / [print] Alison Leslie Gold. - first edition. - New York : Scholastic Press, (c)2000. - xi, 176 pages, 8. pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.



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Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986.


Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Biography.
Diplomats--Japan--Biography.
Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Kaunas.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.

D804.G618.S643 2000