How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims
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The Importance of Coded Letters
In 1941, as the Holocaust really gets going in occupied Poland, people start sending these sort of coded letters with passport photos included. They'd send within that, you'd say, you know, within the letter you'd give code as to what your birth date was and things like that. So it's really, that, that aspect is a really fascinating one of how they actually got these applications in effectively. By 1944, they've kind of been shut down by the, by the Swiss police, under pressure from the Gestapo. But by that stage, they reckon that they produce passports and documents for about 10,000 people, which makes it, you know,. one of the biggest Holocaust
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