Chaim Eiss

Archive of documents revealing Polish efforts to rescue Jews uncovered

The Culture Ministry and the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum said they had obtained the so-called Eiss archive after more than a year of negotiations with a private owner in Israel. Ministry of Culture and National Hertige

"The documents confirm the actions taken by the diplomats at that time and they are irrefutable evidence that the Polish government during WW II was systematically involved in rescuing Jews on the territory of occupied Poland from the extermination brought to them by the Germans," Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Paweł Lewandowski, told The First News.

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