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Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the Polish Ambassador, Aleksander Lados, they undertook a systematic programme 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. At first, these Jews were interned, in relative comfort, to be exchanged for German citizens held abroad. Yet when the Latin American states declared themselves unwilling to recognise those with illegally issued documents, some of those 'Exchange Jews' began to lose the protection that had saved them from the death camps. With the international community generally failing to act to assist the Jews, the Lados operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the entire war.
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