Tombstone in Switzerland for Polish diplomat who helped Jews in WWII

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Tombstone in Switzerland for Polish diplomat who helped Jews in WWII
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki 17.08.2018 11:30

A new tombstone will be placed at a Swiss cemetery for a Polish diplomat who helped Jews during World War II, a news agency reported on Friday.


Konstanty Rokicki. Image: Zbigniew Popadiuch [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

The tombstone of Konstanty Rokicki (1899-1958), who fabricated Latin American passports to save Jews from the Holocaust, will be erected at the Friedental Cemetery in the Swiss city of Lucerne in October, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported, citing the Polish embassy in Bern and authorities in Lucerne.

During WW II, Rokicki was among a group of diplomats led by the Polish ambassador to Switzerland at the time, Aleksander Ładoś, who produced fake passports of Latin American countries that helped hundreds of Jews escape from Poland at a time when the country was under Nazi German occupation.

Read more at: http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/378086,Tombstone-in-Switzerland-for-Polish-diplomat-who-helped-Jews-in-WWII

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But according to some, "Poles drink anti-semitism with their mothers' milk."