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SUMMARY:Book talk: ‘The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation’ by Roger Moorhouse
DESCRIPTION:Between 1940 and 1943\, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable – and\, until now\, almost completely unknown – humanitarian operation. \nUnder the leadership of the Polish ambassador\, Aleksander Ładoś\, they undertook a systematic programme of forging Latin American passports and identity documents\, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. \nThe Ładoś operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the Holocaust\, and The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. The author\, Roger Moorhouse\, will give a short talk about this remarkable book which follows the desperate bids of Jews to obtain life-saving documents\, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be able to escape the murderous machinery of the Holocaust. After the talk\, Roger and the Director of the Library\, Dr Toby Simpson\, will conduct a conversation about the book\, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. \nAbout the speaker\nRoger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in modern German and Polish history. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw\, he is the author of Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots against the Führer\, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital\, 1939-1945\, The Devil’s Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin\, 1939-41 and\, most recently\, First to Fight: The Polish War 1939\, for which we was awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry’s History Prize in 2019.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-forgers-the-forgotten-story-of-the-holocausts-most-audacious-rescue-operation-by-roger-moorhouse/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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