Poland has acquired a Second World War-era archive, the so-called Eiss Archive, that documents the efforts of Polish diplomats in Switzerland to get Jews out of Europe by issuing phony passports from Latin American countries. The Polish culture ministry and the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum announced that Poland had obtained the archive after more than a year of negotiations with a private owner in Israel. The documents will go on display for several months in the Swiss capital Bern before becoming part of the collection at the Auschwitz museum, which is also a memorial to the victims of the Nazi death camp where some 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed. The ministry and the museum said 330 people were known to have survived the Holocaust as a result of having one of the faked passports and another 387 were killed despite having the false documents. The fate of 430 others has not been determined. The rescue effort was led by the Polish ambassador to ...
