Passage To Freedom by Ken Mochizuki

Passage To Freedom by Ken Mochizuki

The true story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler," who, with his family's encouragement, saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II.

As a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in the 1940s, Chiune Sugihara had a chance to help thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust through Japan, but it was against his government's orders. When his five-year-old son Hiroki asked, "If we don't help them, won't they die?" Sugihara decided to assist the refugees.

Based on Hiroki Sugihara's own words, Passage to Freedom is the first fully illustrated children's book to tell Sugihara's heroic story, highlighting his courageous humanity, and the importance of a child's opinion in his father's decision.

Baseball Saved Us, Heroes, and Journey to Freedom: The Sugihara Story are among Ken Mochizuki's award-winning and bestselling children's picture books. He also wrote Beacon Hill Boys, a young adult novel, Inside the Silence, a Living Voices performance piece, and a musical adaptation of Baseball Saved Us, which was presented by Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. He is the author of and contributor to several adult nonfiction histories as a journalist and historian.