By Zofia HartmanAusteriaPublished in 2025Originally published in Polish in 2024 178 pages, 8 x 5 inPaperback Chiune Sugihara (1900–1986), a Japanese diplomat and spy, serving as consul of the Empire of Japan in Kaunas, in the summer of 1940, in the last weeks of the independent Republic of Lithuania, issued several thousand Jews, mainly refugees from Poland, transit visas enabling them to travel through Japan on their way to the Dutch island of Curaçao in the Caribbean. It was a fiction – in reality, no one was going to Curaçao, and most of the Jews who were saved eventually found refuge in Japan, the Shanghai ghetto, Australia, or New Zealand. The Dutch and Poles also played a role in the diplomatic rescue operation. An official of Japan, allied with Germany, saving Jews? The Soviets agreeing to let them pass through Siberia? Sugihara's story is mysterious and not yet fully understood. Zofia Hartman shows how it has been received and how ambiguous it is. Please note this book has limited availability. Items ship in 3 to 5 business days.
