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Polish Passport ranks tenth in Henley Passport Index 2021

This is the highest position occupied by the Polish document since 2006, when it ranked in 16th place. Leszek Szymański/PAP

According to this year's Henley Index, a Polish passport allows the holder to visit 182 countries and territories without a visa.

A special virtual program about the rescue of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust through a Latin American forged passport operation

Sharon Berry and Jeffrey Cymbler will be speaking about the Ładoś Group — a partnership of Polish diplomats and Jewish leaders — who forged Latin American passports to save Jews throughout German-occupied Europe.

Moving documentary about diplomats who saved hundreds of Jews released with English subtitles

Making generous use of archival materials and featuring in-depth interviews with authors, historians, professors, survivors and Holocaust descendants, the one-hour documentary titled ‘Polmission. The Passport Mystery’ lays bare the scale of efforts undertaken by Poland’s government-in-exile to rescue the nation’s Jews from near-certain death.

List of over 3,000 Jews saved by WWII Polish diplomats published

The so-called Ładoś List, named after the head of Polish war time delegation in Switzerland, includes names of people who received fake Central American passports prepared by Polish diplomats in Bern as a way to escape the horrors of the Holocaust.

Britain’s new BREXIT passports to be made in Poland

French-Dutch company Gemalto, which has a factory in Tczew where electronic components that go into modern documents including e-passports are produced, won the £260 million contract.

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Teen sparks national mania after spotted reading book instead of smartphone while selling raspberries

The 13-year-old called Samuel charmed the country after being photographed on the high street in Gniezno which quickly went viral creating a wave of ‘Samuel-mania’.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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