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Jakub Kumoch

Jakub Kumoch is the Polish ambassador to Turkey and previously served as the ambassador to Switzerland.

  • The slip of paper Heinz Lichtenstern received when he was withdrawn from a transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in the fall of 1944
    The slip of paper Heinz Lichtenstern received when he was withdrawn from a transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in the fall of 1944
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    The Forger From Berne

    Between 1940 and 1944 a clandestine network of Polish diplomats and their Jewish partners in Switzerland created illegal Latin American passports that saved thousands of lives. Half of the documents were forged by one person—Polish Vice Consul in Berne Konstanty Rokicki.

    byJakub Kumoch
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