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Passage To Freedom

1. Why did the refugees come to Mr.Sugihara and not not to someone else? The refugees came to Mr. Sugihara because he was the only one who could issue visas to travel through another country.

2. When Mr. Sugihara could not get official permission to issue visas for the refugees, why did he ask his family for help? Mr.Sugihara asked his family for help because he wanted to be sure about what decision to make and if it was correct to whether help the refugees or not.

3. What do you think the Sugiharas will decide to do? Probably, the Sugiharas will decide to help the refugees, as they won't leave those poor people at their luck.

4.Why did the Sugiharas decide to issue the visas? Why did Mr.Sugihara refuse to let his wife help? The Sugiharas decided to issue the visas because they knew that if they didn’t most of the refugees will die. Also, Mr.Sugihara refuse to let her wife help him because if they get caught he wanted to be the only one responsible.

5. Name two of the ways in which Mr.Sugihara was honored after the war ended After the war ended Mr.Suguihara was honored with a monument in his birthplace now know as the Hill of Humanity, then “in 1994 a group of Sugihara survivors traveled to Japan to re-dedicate the monument in a ceremony that was attended by several high officials of the Japanese government.”