Poland in Sweden

The Polish Embassy in Stockholm organised, together with the Polish Institute, an event to popularise the history of Polish diplomats during World War II known as "The "Ładoś Group" .

"The Ładoś Group" during World War II, from at least early 1941 to late 1943, was involved in the illegal purchase and production of passports and citizenship certificates for four South and Central American countries: Paraguay, Honduras, Haiti and Peru. The documents were false proof of foreign citizenship and were intended to help save the lives of Jews during the war. 

Ambassador Joanna Hofman welcomed the guests and invited them to listen to a talk by a panel consisting of:
- Minister of Foreign Affainrs Plenipotentiary for Dialogue with the Jewish Diaspora, Director Jaroslaw Nowak, 
- Chief Jedrzej Uszynski, co-author of the book "The Ładoś List", and
- Mr Urri Strauss, saved from extinction thanks to a Paraguayan passport issued by Polish diplomats in Switzerland.

During the discussion, moderated by Swedish journalist and chairman of the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism, Willy Silberstein, panelists discused about research into the history of the operation conducted by the Polish MP in Bern, Aleksander Ładoś and his colleagues, interest in Jewish history and the censorship during the communist era towards Jewish-related topics. Urri Strauss, told his story and the traumatic experiences of his family - Jews living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the Second World War. He described the Nazi occupation and the situation in which documents received from Switzerland saved his life.