Passage to Freedom is a biography of Chiune Sugihara. In the story Mr. Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat to Lithuania, signs thousands of travel visas for refugees escaping from the German army in 1940. The picture above is an actual visa signed by Mr. Sugihara.
Mr. Sugihara's efforts reveal to us three of his character traits: compassion, courage, and integrity. Give an example from the story to show one of these traits.
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Mr. Sugihara writing the visa's at all was courageous.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many visas Chiune Sugihara actually wrote.
ReplyDeleteHe was very kind because even though
ReplyDeletehis government told him he couldn't give a visa to all of the people.He did it anyway.Thats how he showed compassion, courage and integrity
Mr.sugihara said "I have to do something.I may have to disobey my government,but if I don't,I will be disobeying my conscience"that is courage.
ReplyDeleteMr.Sugihara had lots of courage. Because he had to make the decision whether or not to disobey his own government or to save tons of refugees.
ReplyDeleteHe showed courage by righting all of those visas cause the government said no and then Mr.Sugihara asked the government and he said no again so it took him a lot of courage to do something that the government said not to do because the government is the like a boss to the people that lived in japan.
ReplyDeleteIn the story, he says that his father was signing thousands of travel visas by hand each day for refugees.
ReplyDeleteMr.Sugihara wrote visa to refugees because the German took over there country.
ReplyDeleteThe story said that the German army
ReplyDeletein 1940 that the picture above is an
actual visa signed by Mr.Sugihara.
In the story,he say's his father was signs thousands of visas by hand each day for refugees.
ReplyDeleteHe showed courage in the story by disobeying his government. To give visa's to the refugees for them to travel east through the Soviet Union and end up in japan.
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