Staff writer
YOKOHAMA -- Yukiko Sugihara, 85, still recalls the huge crowd outside the Japanese Consulate in Nazi-occupied Lithuania one cold summer morning in 1940 -- hundreds of European Jews desperate to escape persecution.
"As my husband motioned me to look out of a window one morning, I saw hundreds of people surrounding the consulate and looking at us. They were all poorly dressed and appeared desperate," Sugihara said.