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Tuesday, October 9, 2018
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Polish leader honors WWII diplomat who tried to help Jews
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePoland’s president and descendants of Holocaust survivors hold a graveside ceremony to honor a Polish diplomat in Switzerland who helped Jews escape Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II by issuing phony Latin American passports.
The ceremony takes place at the Friedental cemetery in Lucerne, Switzerland, where Konstanty Rokicki was buried in 1958 in a simple grave after dying in poverty. A new gravestone is placed that describes his role in saving Jews.
Rokicki’s actions were a “brighter star in that night of black despair,” Andrzej Duda tells dozens of attendants.
— AP
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