Konstanty Rokicki

Diplomat who used fake passports to save hundreds of Jews during WWII named Righteous Among the Nations

The illegal passports were paid for by Jewish groups, while the Polish diplomats acted as the middlemen, giving bribes or producing the fake passports. Twitter/@PLinSwitzerland/Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny

Konstanty Rokicki was a consul in Bern, Switzerland, where together with other Polish diplomats who called themselves the Bern Group they prepared passports for those in danger of deportation to get them out of Europe, mainly to Paraguay, but also Honduras, Peru, Salvador, Bolivia and Haiti.

President honours Polish consul for saving Jews during WWII

The activity of consul Konstanty Rokicki, who during WWII issued false passports saving in this way hundreds of Jews from Nazi German occupied Poland "symbolises a brighter star in the abyss of despair of those years," President Andrzej Duda said in Switzerland on Tuesday.

Archive of documents revealing Polish efforts to rescue Jews uncovered

"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.

Hidden documents reveal former FM offered fake passport to escape the Nazis

Documents uncovered by the Polish Press Agency (PAP) show that as a child the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Adam D. Rotfeld was on a list of people who received fake Paraguayan passports to help them escape the Holocaust.

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