Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story — page 1 — TYLU PELV V VEL VVU ww w warwu Special thanks to Hiroki Sugihara who spent long hours recounting this story K M For everyone who fights for freedom and peace D L Text copyright 1997 by Ken Mochizuki Illustrations copyright 1997 by Dom Lee Afterword copyright 1997 by Hiroki Sugihara All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without the written permission of the publisher LEE LOW BOOKS Inc 95 Madison Avenue New York NY 10016 lceandlow com Manufactured in China by South China Printing Co October 2011 Book design Christy Hale Book production The Kids at Our House The text is set in Trump Mediacval The illustrations are rendered by applying encaustic beeswax on paper then scratching out images and finally adding oil paint and colored pencil HC 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 PB 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 First Edition The author illustrator and editors gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the Sugihara family and the assistance provided by the Holocaust Oral History Project in San Francisco in the development of this book The photo on the back cover of Hiroki and Chiune Sugihara was taken in 1938 in Helsinki Finland This photo along with the proverbs that appear on the front endpaper or back cover were reprinted with permission from Visas For Life by Yukiko Sugihara translated by Hiroki Sugihara published by Edu Comm Plus 774 Alta Loma Drive San Francisco CA 94080 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mochizuki Ken Passage to freedom the Sugihara story by Ken Mochizuki illustrated by Dom Lee afterword by Hiroki Sugihara 1st ed p cm ISBN 978 1 880000 49 6 hardcover ISBN 978 1 58430 157 8 paperback 1 Sugihara Chiune 1900 1986 Juvenile literature 2 Holocaust Jewish 1939 19451Poland Juvenile literature 3 World War 1939 1945 JewsRescue Juvenile literature 4 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Juvenile literature 5 Diplomats Japan Biography Juvenile literature Free Teacher's

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story — page 2 — There is a saying that the eyes tell everything about a person At a store my father saw a young Jewish boy who didn't have enough money to buy what he wanted So my father gave the boy some of his That boy looked into my father's eyes and to thank him invited my father to his home That is when my family and I went to a Hanukkah celebration for the first time I was five years old

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story — page 3

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story — page 4 — In 1940 my father was a diplomat representing the country of Japan Our family lived in a small town in the small country called Lithuania There was my father and mother my Auntie Setsuko my younger brother Chiaki and my three month old baby brother Haruki My father worked in his office downstairs

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