Polish parliament by a nearly unanimous vote (+446-2=1) declares 2021 as the “Year of the Ładoś Group” in honor of Ambassador
@PLinSwitzerland
and his men who saved thousands of Jews throughout Europe during
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Aleksander Ładoś, born 130 years ago, served 1940-45 as Polish Ambassador to Switzerland. His staff together with
@WorldJewishCong
and Agudath Yisrael provided Jews with thousands of Latin American papers saving many lives.
See the documentary:
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Among more than 800 identified survivors, the majority were not Polish Jews! Ładoś and his men provided help to Dutch and German Jews as well as people from a dozen of other European countries. More info here:
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About half the documents were fake Paraguayan papers, 95% of them forged by one man, Ładoś' subordinate, Polish Consul Konstanty Rokicki, who died in 1958 in total poverty and who was only posthumously awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem in 2019. 4/7
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@JoannaLichocka
: By commemorating the Ładoś Group and not just Aleksander Ładoś himself, we also pay tribute to his Jewish collaborators, Abraham Silberschein, Chaim Eiss, Julius Kühl and others. 5/7
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This story was brought back to life thanks to survivors and their descendants as well as
@AuschwitzMuseum
@JHIInstytut
@InstPileckiego
@ipngovpl
@WorldJewishCong
@PLinSwitzerland
and many journalists incl
@mwpotocki
@eldadbeck
@PercyMetcalfe
@KarolDarmoros
@hebrish
& others. 6/7
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Recent discoveries show Ładoś and his people did not act alone but rather represented the policy of the Government-in-Exile. This Israeli story is an exemplar of the policy. Similar operations took place in
@PLinIstanbul
@PLinCuba
and elsewhere. 7/7
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@JakubKumoch
@AuschwitzMuseum
@PLinSwitzerland
@WorldJewishCong
@AJC_CE
@prezydentpl
@AndrzejDuda
@PremierRP
@MSZ_RP
@RauZbigniew
@donaldtusk
@Dannythefink
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@JakubKumoch
@AuschwitzMuseum
@PLinSwitzerland
@WorldJewishCong
@AJC_CE
@prezydentpl
@AndrzejDuda
@PremierRP
@MSZ_RP
@RauZbigniew
@donaldtusk
@Dannythefink
What an enormous interest in this subject and this enormous flood of comments ... Yes I know that the topic of saving Jews by Poles is not very popular.
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