Leo Melamed honors Chiune Sugihara, who over a period of roughly a month issued visas that allowed 6,000 Jews to escape war-torn Lithuania and advancing Nazis - saving several times as many people as Oskar Schindler.

I plead with God to release me, if only for a few hours, from this planet drowning in rivers of hate and murder. But we were born into this world to be tested, and the test, it seems, is preserving God's image even under extremely difficult conditions.