Dear Dr. Eagleman,

I am a teacher at a Japanese senior high school. I teach English. When I found your site, I had long wanted to introduce Mr. and Mrs. Sugihara and their great deed during the Second World War to my students in my English class.

I made "Visas for Life" into a textbook and read it with my third-year students.

They didn't have enough knowledge about the situation of Europe those days under which Jews lived and I took much time to explain the background of what Mr. and Mrs. Sugihara did for the Jewish people who came to the consulate in Kaunas.

I am now deeply satisfied that my students understood the significance of their humanistic deed for the Jewish people.

This letter is to inform you of my gratitude to your site that provided with superb documents that are most suitable for my students to read.

Here are some of the comments students made after reading "Visas for Life". English is their foreign language and it is difficult for them to convey their thought and feelings fully in English, but I believe that they reveal how the students felt learning the heroic deed of Mr. and Mrs. Sugihara.

• Mr. Sugihara is the holiest person whom we should respect. I am moved by what he did. Perhaps, we, nowadays, Japanese people, need a person like him. I like him very much. And I respect him because he saved many people in need. I hope that I am to be a person like him. And I want to serve many people in distress. I want to save refugees and hungry people.
• Mr. Sugihara is a person who should be known by all Japanese. And all Japanese should be proud of him. Because he was willing to lose his rank. Can everyone act like him? Probably I can't. I respect not only Mr. Sugihara but also his wife. She helped her husband. And she was also willing to lose her life.
• Mr. Sugihara is a man who has much courage because he issued visas to Jewish refugees in spite of their risk of his career, his family and the lives of his family.
• I just look up to him. His deed is very respectable. Moreover, he was a humble man and did not exaggerate himself. He is the very man that has humanity. I hope that many more people will have true courage. Even if it is not big, the important thing is to do something.
• I hope that I will become an adult like Mr. Sugihara. And I would like to make a virtuous decision for the people in need.
• I think him a great man and rare man. His face is printed in one of Israel's memorial stamps. I don't know anyone who is like him.