{"id":2585,"date":"2018-10-23T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:09:48","slug":"the-activity-of-the-berne-group-during-the-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2018\/10\/23\/the-activity-of-the-berne-group-during-the-second-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The activity of the Berne Group during the Second World War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The conference, hosted by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bdc0c2;line-height: 19.2px;cursor: pointer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.culturepolonaise.eu\/3,4,849,en,The_activity_of_the_Berne_Group_during_the_Second_World_War#JK\"><strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Jakub KUMOCH<\/strong><\/a>, will be devoted to the activity of what is known as the\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Berne Group<\/strong>, whose members saved thousands of European Jews during the Second World War by providing them with Latin American passports. The group was made up of four Polish diplomats in Switzerland, the ambassador\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Aleksander \u0141ADO\u015a<\/strong>, who headed up the group, his deputy\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Stefan RYNIEWICZ<\/strong>, consul\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Konstanty ROKICKI<\/strong>\u00a0and diplomat\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Juliusz K\u00dcHL<\/strong>, as well as representatives of Jewish organisations:\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Abraham SILBERSCHEIN<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong style=\"line-height: 19.2px\">Chaim EISS<\/strong>.<br style=\"line-height: 19.2px\" \/><br style=\"line-height: 19.2px\" \/>It is estimated that 1056 fake passports were produced, and, given that each document could be established for one or several people, 2100 people were able to benefit from them. Several thousand names can also be found on the lists which confirmed Paraguayan nationality without the need to issue a passport. In addition, the Berne Group provided Jewish organisations with Polish figures, thanks to which they were able to inform Jewish people living in America about the situation in Poland and the Holocaust.<br style=\"line-height: 19.2px\" \/><br style=\"line-height: 19.2px\" \/>Meer informatie over de Groep van Bern bevindt zich op de Wikipediapagina, die door een groep onderzoekers geschreven werd:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bdc0c2;line-height: 19.2px;cursor: pointer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernese_Group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernese_Group<\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/>\n<p><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">PRACTICAL INFORMATION<\/strong><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Rooms of the Polish Embassy\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">in Brussels (Avenue des Gaulois 29, 1040 Brussels) \u2013\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #bdc0c2;font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;cursor: pointer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.culturepolonaise.eu\/3,4,849,en,The_activity_of_the_Berne_Group_during_the_Second_World_War#map\">see map<\/a><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">&gt;&gt;&gt; Tuesday\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">23 October<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">\u00a02018 &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">19h<\/strong><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">free entrance<\/strong><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Mandatory registration<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">\u00a0on the following address:\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #bdc0c2;font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;cursor: pointer\" href=\"mailto:bruxelles@instytutpolski.org\">bruxelles@instytutpolski.org<\/a><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><em style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Number of places is limited. Please be prepared to show identification papers upon arrival.<\/em><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br style=\"line-height: 19.2px\" \/><br style=\"line-height: 19.2px\" \/>The conference will take place exclusively in French.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/>\n<p><a style=\"color: #bdc0c2;font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;cursor: pointer\" name=\"JK\"><\/a><br style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" \/><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 19.2px;color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dr Jakub KUMOCH<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">, the current ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Swiss Confederation, holds a degree in European Studies, Orientalism and Political Science, is an expert in international relations in the European Union and holds a doctorate in Social Science from the Jagiellonian University. Since 2015, he has been part of the Foreign Affairs section within the Polish National Council of Development. He has worked, inter alia, at the Centre for Oriental Studies, the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the think tank the Sobieski Institute. He speaks fluent French, English, Croatian, Spanish and Russian. He also knows Ukrainian and Arabic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference, hosted by\u00a0Jakub KUMOCH, will be devoted to the activity of what is known as the\u00a0Berne Group, whose members saved thousands of European Jews during the Second World War by providing them with Latin American passports. The group was made up of four Polish diplomats in Switzerland, the ambassador\u00a0Aleksander \u0141ADO\u015a, who headed up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":2583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The activity of the Berne Group during the Second World War - Instytut Polski w Brukseli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2018\/10\/23\/the-activity-of-the-berne-group-during-the-second-world-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pl_PL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The activity of the Berne Group during the Second World War - Instytut Polski w Brukseli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The conference, hosted by\u00a0Jakub KUMOCH, will be devoted to the activity of what is known as the\u00a0Berne Group, whose members saved thousands of European Jews during the Second World War by providing them with Latin American passports. 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In addition, the Berne Group provided Jewish organisations with Polish figures, thanks to which they were able to inform Jewish people living in America about the situation in Poland and the Holocaust.Meer informatie over de Groep van Bern bevindt zich op de Wikipediapagina, die door een groep onderzoekers geschreven werd:\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernese_Group\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0Rooms of the Polish Embassy\u00a0in Brussels (Avenue des Gaulois 29, 1040 Brussels) \u2013\u00a0see map&gt;&gt;&gt; Tuesday\u00a023 October\u00a02018 -\u00a019h&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0free entrance&gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0Mandatory registration\u00a0on the following address:\u00a0bruxelles@instytutpolski.orgNumber of places is limited. Please be prepared to show identification papers upon arrival.The conference will take place exclusively in French.\nDr Jakub KUMOCH, the current ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Swiss Confederation, holds a degree in European Studies, Orientalism and Political Science, is an expert in international relations in the European Union and holds a doctorate in Social Science from the Jagiellonian University. Since 2015, he has been part of the Foreign Affairs section within the Polish National Council of Development. He has worked, inter alia, at the Centre for Oriental Studies, the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the think tank the Sobieski Institute. He speaks fluent French, English, Croatian, Spanish and Russian. 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