The fugu plan : the untold story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II

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Label

The fugu plan : the untold story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II

Title remainder

the untold story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II

Statement of responsibility

Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz

Creator

• Tokayer, Marvin, 1936-

Contributor

• Swartz, Mary, 1942-

Subject

• Shanghai (China) -- Politics and government
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Japan
• Japan -- Politics and government -- 1912-1945
• Jews -- China | Shanghai -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

This book discusses the Fugu Plan, a plan virtually unheard of when this book was first published in 1979. That short-lived plan was personified by Chiune Sugihara. From November 1939 to September 1940, Sugihara was officially the Japanese consul in Kovno (or 'Kaunas'), Lithuania. In reality, Sugihara had been sent to Kovno to gather intelligence about Soviet and German troop movements in the area. Because he was there, however, and because of who he was, Sugihara became one of the crucial players in the fugu plan--a scheme that, by the war's end, would save the lives of thousands of Jews, as well as the entire Mir Yeshiva, whose scholars would survive to inspire a new era of Jewish learning in the U.S. and Israel

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.53/1503/9240951132

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DS135.C5

LC item number

T64

Literary form

non fiction