The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocausts Most Audacious Rescue Operation Moorhouse Roger
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocausts Most Audacious Rescue Operation Moorhouse Roger The secret history of one of the largest--and least-known--rescue operations of World War IIBetween…
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocausts Most Audacious Rescue Operation Moorhouse Roger
The secret history of one of the largest--and least-known--rescue operations of World War IIBetween 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable--and until now, completely unknown--humanitarian operation. The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic program 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.With the international community failing to act, the operation was one of the largest actions to aid Jews of the entire war.
And we witness the quiet We follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these lifesaving documents as the Nazi death machine draws ever closer.