Bibliograph

Passage to freedom, the Sugihara story, written by Ken Mochizuki ; illustrated by Dom Lee ; afterword by Hiroki Sugihara

Type

Label

Passage to freedom, the Sugihara story, written by Ken Mochizuki ; illustrated by Dom Lee ; afterword by Hiroki Sugihara

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

AD610L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Passage to freedom

Responsibility statement

written by Ken Mochizuki ; illustrated by Dom Lee ; afterword by Hiroki Sugihara

Sub title

the Sugihara story

Summary

Hiroki Sugihara was five years old in 1940 when hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland came to his father, the Japanese ambassador in Lithuania, to request visas to travel through Russia to Japan and then to other countries. Although the Japanese government denied the request, and despite the risk to his own family, Sugihara issued visas to over 10,000 refugees before he was forced to move to Berlin

Target audience

juvenile

Classification