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