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Exhibition in Switzerland shows how Polish diplomats helped Jews in WWII

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Grzegorz Siwicki 21.09.2018 07:30
A newly opened exhibition in Switzerland shows how Polish diplomats helped Jews during World War II, a news agency has reported.
Photo: IARPhoto: IAR

The exhibition, opened by Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Culture Minister Piotr Gliński on Thursday, documents an effort in which Polish diplomats helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.

The diplomats, led by the Polish ambassador to Switzerland at the time, produced passports of Latin American countries which helped hundreds of Jews escape from Poland at a time when the country was under Nazi German occupation.

The exhibition in the Swiss capital Bern features a historical archive that officials say Poland recently recovered after nearly 75 years.

The so-called Eiss Archive originally belonged to Chaim Eiss (1867-1943), an Orthodox Jewish activist who was a member of the Bern-based group of diplomats who forged Latin American passports to save Jews.

It is estimated that the group produced from several hundred to several thousand fake passports between 1941 and 1943.

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Source: IAR

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