Description
The advent of World War II led to terrible tragedies and amazing acts of bravery. Accepting his diplomatic post in Eastern Europe only six months before the war broke out, an unlikely man from Japan became a great hero of the war. A quiet man known as The Samurai defied orders from Tokyo, risking his life and career, to engineer a way to help thousands of Jews escape Europe. Never telling anyone of his heroism, it wasn’t until thirty years later that a survivor he had saved began to tell his story, and then the State of Israel paid tribute to him with the high honor of including his name as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. This is the story of who he was, what he did, and what it cost him.
