diplomats

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diplomats

Passage to freedom

[the Sugihara story]
2000
Tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania in 1940 who risked the safety of his own family members and put his job on the line by issuing visas to as many as 10,000 Jews who were facing death at the hands of the Nazis.

A deadly paradise

2008
Everyone wants to blame her lover, a young African lesbian who happens to be an illegal immigrant in Italy, for the murder of an elderly German woman in the small rural town of Paradiso, but Inspector Alessandro Cenni insists on a full investigation.

The gentleman from New York

Daniel Patrick Moynihan : a biography
2000

Elizabeth of Toro

the odyssey of an African princess : an autobiography
1989

A Special Fate

Chiune Sugihara
2000
A biography of Chiune Sugihara, a japanese consul in Lithuania, who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II by issuing visas against the orders of his superiors.

Righteous gentile

the story of Raoul Wallenberg, missing hero of the Holocaust
1981

In the garden of beasts

love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
2012

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