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At 5:15, one summer morning in 1940, Chiune Sugihara, Japan's consul-general in Lithuania, awoke to the sound of a low rumble outside. It was the sound of over 200 persons filling the crowded street outside the consulate. The consul immediately hid his wife & children, fearing the worst. It did not take him long, however, to realize that those outside were Jews hoping to get visas that would take them out of the country to freedom. This is the story of a man who sacrificed his own bright career to write the precious visas that saved an estimated 2,000 to 6,000 lives.