"The Ładoś List" to be included in the Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names - Instytut Pileckiego

We are currently working on introducing the names from “The Ładoś List” to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Names Database created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Holocaust Survivors and Victims Names Database is one of the largest databases documenting the fate of Holocaust victims and survivors in the world.

In cooperation with partners in Poland and abroad, for the last few years we have been conducting archival and academic research concerning the activities of the Ładoś Group. The key event in this regard was the publication of “The Ładoś List”, compiled by Jakub Kumoch and Jędrzej Uszyński, as well as employees of the Pilecki Institute – Monika Maniewska and Bartłomiej Zygmunt.

“The Ładoś List” currently comprises 3,282 names – the fate of 1,441 of them remains unknown. We are hoping that the integration of our list with the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Names Database will help us learn about the fate of other persons to whom the Ładoś Group issued the life-saving passports.

Ładoś Group

During the Second World War, an unofficial group of Polish diplomats from the Polish Legation in Bern, led by that country’s envoy to Switzerland Aleksander Ładoś, cooperated with representatives of Jewish organizations to rescue Europe’s Jews. From at least the beginning of 1941 until the end of 1943, the members illegally purchased and issued passports and citizenship certificates of four South and Central American states: Paraguay, Honduras, Haiti and Peru. These were delivered to people under threat of death in the Holocaust and served to protect their bearers from transport to the death camps located in the Third Reich.

“The Ładoś List” (second edition) is available at the Pilecki Institute’s online shop:
https://www.sklepinstytutpileckiego.pl/

First edition of "The Ładoś List" can be downloaded below.

Visit our website devoted to the Ładoś Group:
https://passportsforlife.pl/

See also:

• Who was Aleksander Ładoś? | reportage
• Seminar: The Genesis of the Lados Operation – 1940-1942 | seminar (18 mar 2021)
• Seimnar: Secret Diplomacy Diverse Ways to Rescue Jews | Duty and Compassion (12 kwi 2021)
• Exhibition "The Choice to Save Lives"
• The heroic Poles who saved my mother’s life | article

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