The Forgers School/community relations & school/home relations BBC History Magazine

BBC History Magazine

I've been at it since I was at least five

student life is more precarious than Surya had imagined

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The Forgers School/community relations & school/home relations BBC History MagazineAn inspirational story of resistance and resilience, of the heroism of ordinary men against overwhelming odds Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable and until now, completely unknown humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic programme of forging passports and identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German