The secret history of one of the largest--and least-known--rescue
operations of World War II
Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland
engaged in a wholly remarkable--and until now, completely
unknown--humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they
masterminded a systematic program 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 facing
extermination in the Holocaust.
With the international community failing to act, the operation was one
of the largest actions to aid Jews of the entire war.* The
Forgers *tells this extraordinary story for the first time. We follow
the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these lifesaving documents as the
Nazi death machine draws ever closer. And we witness the quiet heroism
of a group of ordinary men who decided to do something rather than
nothing and saved thousands of lives.