EAN: 9781847926777

THE FORGERS - ROGER MOORHOUSE KARTONIERT (TB)

Between 1940 and 1943  a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly
remarkable - and until now  completely unknown - humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish
activists  they masterminded a systematic programme of forging passports and identity documents
for Latin American countries  which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the
lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. While the Nazis unleashed
their murderous fury  they retained a strange legalism that respected the citizens and passport
holders of neutral countries. At first  these Jews were interned  in relative comfort  to be
exchanged for German citizens held in these countries. Yet when it became obvious that the
Latin American states were unwilling to honour these illegally issued documents  the 'Exchange
Jews' gradually lost the protection that had saved them from the death camps. With the
international community failing to act  the operation was one of the largest actions to aid
Jews of the entire war. The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. We
follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these life-saving documents  we witness their
painful uncertainty over whether they will offer the desired protection  as the Nazi death
machine draws ever closer. And we witness the quiet heroism of a group of ordinary men who
decided to do something rather than nothing and saved thousands of lives.

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