A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust

A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust
ISBN-10
0590395254
ISBN-13
9780590395250
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Scholastic
Author
Alison Leslie Gold

Description

A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, explains how he saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors. By the author of Memories of Anne Frank.

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