Open this photo in gallery: The Sugihara Visa that allowed Jewish refugees to escape Europe, saving upwards of 6,000 lives.Irene Henry Collection/Courtesy of the Ontario Jewish Archives It was November, 1938, and Nazi thugs in Germany were smashing and burning Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues to the ground, in what came to be known as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. In the town of Brand, a Catholic priest, seeing the synagogue ablaze, fought through the flames to rescue the Torah, a sacred scroll inscribed with the first five books of the Hebrew bible, and vowed to hand it to...