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• catalog abstract "This is the story of Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat and spy who saved as many as 10,000 Jews from deportation to concentration camps and almost certain death. Because of his extreme modesty, Sugihara's tremendous act of moral courage is only now beginning to become widely known. Unlike Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat whose government sent him to Hungary with the express purpose of saving Jews, and Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who at least initially had a. Vested economic interest in protecting the lives of "his Jews," Sugihara had no apparent reason to perform his acts of rescue. Indeed, he acted in direct violation of official Japanese policy, which directed all government and military personnel to cooperate with the murderous policies of their Nazi allies. Examining Sugihara's education and background - a background shared with the colonial administrators and military men who committed "the rape of Nanjing"--Author. Hillel Levine finds nothing that explains his extraordinary behavior. Levine's search has taken him from the old Japanese consul building in Kaunas (now Kovno), Lithuania, to the Australian outback; across Japan from the rice fields of Sugihara's native town to the boardrooms of conglomerates where his younger schoolmates still hold power. But the more Levine sought answers to Sugihara's puzzling behavior, the more he encountered questions. Remarkably, Chiune Sugihara. Was not the only Japanese official to save Jews. Yet none was ever punished for insubordination. Was there a secret Japanese plan to save Jews from Nazi genocide? Much Holocaust scholarship focuses on the perpetrators of evil, trying to illuminate what drove ordinary men and women to commit horrifying and murderous acts. But perhaps as difficult to understand is the phenomenon of rescue: what inspired courageous individuals to swim against the tide of cruelty and. Indifference. This sensitive and nuanced biography concludes that there is no link between a person's background and his moral inclinations. Mercy remains a divine mystery despite our human craving to reduce it to behavioristic formulas.".
• catalog contributor b10045632.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Hillel Levine finds nothing that explains his extraordinary behavior. Levine's search has taken him from the old Japanese consul building in Kaunas (now Kovno), Lithuania, to the Australian outback; across Japan from the rice fields of Sugihara's native town to the boardrooms of conglomerates where his younger schoolmates still hold power. But the more Levine sought answers to Sugihara's puzzling behavior, the more he encountered questions. Remarkably, Chiune Sugihara.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308) and index.".
• catalog description "Indifference. This sensitive and nuanced biography concludes that there is no link between a person's background and his moral inclinations. Mercy remains a divine mystery despite our human craving to reduce it to behavioristic formulas.".
• catalog description "Prelude: Not "Standing on Blood" -- Ch. 1. The Young Man Sugihara -- Ch. 2. Sergei Pavelovich -- Ch. 3. The Honorable Chiune Sugihara -- Ch. 4. Roads to Kovno -- Ch. 5. "Outside the Kovno Consulate" -- Interlude: "Dear Mr. Sugihara ..." -- Ch. 6. "As Is Customary When Issuing Transit Visas ..." -- Conclusion: Roads Away from Kovno -- Postlude: Are There Lessons?".
• catalog description "This is the story of Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat and spy who saved as many as 10,000 Jews from deportation to concentration camps and almost certain death. Because of his extreme modesty, Sugihara's tremendous act of moral courage is only now beginning to become widely known. Unlike Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat whose government sent him to Hungary with the express purpose of saving Jews, and Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who at least initially had a.".
• catalog description "Vested economic interest in protecting the lives of "his Jews," Sugihara had no apparent reason to perform his acts of rescue. Indeed, he acted in direct violation of official Japanese policy, which directed all government and military personnel to cooperate with the murderous policies of their Nazi allies. Examining Sugihara's education and background - a background shared with the colonial administrators and military men who committed "the rape of Nanjing"--Author.".
• catalog description "Was not the only Japanese official to save Jews. Yet none was ever punished for insubordination. Was there a secret Japanese plan to save Jews from Nazi genocide? Much Holocaust scholarship focuses on the perpetrators of evil, trying to illuminate what drove ordinary men and women to commit horrifying and murderous acts. But perhaps as difficult to understand is the phenomenon of rescue: what inspired courageous individuals to swim against the tide of cruelty and.".
• catalog extent "viii, 323 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "In search of Sugihara.".
• catalog identifier "0684832518".
• catalog isFormatOf "In search of Sugihara.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, N.Y. : Free Press,".
• catalog relation "In search of Sugihara.".
• catalog spatial "Japan".
• catalog spatial "Lithuania Kaunas.".
• catalog subject "362.87/81/092 B 21".
• catalog subject "D804.66.S84 L48 1996".
• catalog subject "Diplomats Japan Biography.".
• catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Lithuania Kaunas.".
• catalog subject "Jews Persecutions Lithuania Kaunas.".
• catalog subject "Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Biography.".
• catalog subject "Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Lithuania Kaunas.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prelude: Not "Standing on Blood" -- Ch. 1. The Young Man Sugihara -- Ch. 2. Sergei Pavelovich -- Ch. 3. The Honorable Chiune Sugihara -- Ch. 4. Roads to Kovno -- Ch. 5. "Outside the Kovno Consulate" -- Interlude: "Dear Mr. Sugihara ..." -- Ch. 6. "As Is Customary When Issuing Transit Visas ..." -- Conclusion: Roads Away from Kovno -- Postlude: Are There Lessons?".
• catalog title "In search of Sugihara : the elusive Japanese diplomat who risked his life to rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust / by Hillel Levine.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".