{"id":4981,"date":"2021-12-13T17:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2022-09-23T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:00:04","slug":"passports-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/13\/passports-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition Passports for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 10-December 31, 2021<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Holocaust Museum LA<\/strong><\/strong><br>100 The Grove Dr<br>Los Angeles, CA 90036<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition Passports for Life, devoted to efforts of rescuing European Jews during World War II, opened on Sunday, October 10, at the Holocaust Museum LA. The Exhibition will be on display until the end of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u0141ado\u015b Group<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u0141ado\u015b Group, operating in Switzerland and composed of Polish diplomats and representatives of Jewish organizations, issued to Jews fake passports of neutral Latin American countries. The exhibition premiere in the oldest Holocaust Museum in the US is a result of the cooperation between the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles and the Pilecki Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Passports for Life &#8211; exhibition on \u0141ado\u015b&#8217;s list<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>80 years ago, in 1941, in Bern, Switzerland, Polish diplomats in cooperation with Jewish circles launched the so-called \u201cpassport initiative\u201d to save Jews from the Holocaust. Aleksander \u0141ado\u015b, Konstanty Rokicki, Abraham Silberschein, Chaim Eiss, Stefan Ryniewicz, and Juliusz K\u00fchl, also known as \u0141ado\u015b Group, issued fake passports and citizenship certificates of Latin American countries in the names of Jews threatened with extermination. It gave these individuals a chance to be interned and possibly exchanged for German prisoners of war, rather than being sent to death camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Museum\u2019s CEO Beth Kean said:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWe are thrilled to partner with Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles to host&nbsp;<\/em>Passports for Life<em>&nbsp;at Holocaust Museum LA for the first time it is exhibited in the United States. With rising anti-Semitism, worldwide humanitarian and refugee crises, and growing intolerance between communities worldwide, it is more important than ever to tell the stories of those who stood up and saved lives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pilecki Institute, in cooperation with its partners in Poland and abroad, has for several years conducted research and archival queries on the activities of \u0141ado\u015b Group. This has resulted, among other things, in the publication in 2019 of the scientific study\u00a0<em>\u0141ado\u015b List<\/em>\u00a0with the names of more than three thousand people for whom passports were issued. The efforts of the researchers not only confirmed the course of action of the passport operation but also proved that we are dealing with one of the largest rescue operations carried out by diplomats during the Holocaust. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1003\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/PASSPORTS_FOR_LIFE_7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/PASSPORTS_FOR_LIFE_7.png 1003w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/PASSPORTS_FOR_LIFE_7-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/PASSPORTS_FOR_LIFE_7-768x627.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The publication of&nbsp;<em>\u0141ado\u015b List<\/em>&nbsp;also made it possible to see its uniqueness. It has been established that not only Polish Jews were saved, but also citizens of other countries, including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe story of the \u0141ado\u015b Group deserves to be told and shared. That is why we are happy that the&nbsp;Passports for Life&nbsp;exhibition [is] displayed in the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, founded by Holocaust survivors,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>said Jaros\u0142aw \u0141asi\u0144ski, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the publication of&nbsp;<em>\u0141ado\u015b List<\/em>, the rescue operation of Polish diplomats in Switzerland has become the subject of international discussion, involving Holocaust survivors and their descendants, families of the diplomats involved in the operation, as well as scholars, journalists, and cultural figures. Families of survivors from all over the world, who discover the fate of their loved ones for the first time, come to the Pilecki Institute and share their stories, photos, and documents. That allows the research to continue and the list to be constantly updated with new names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 2021, the&nbsp;<em>\u0141ado\u015b List<\/em>&nbsp;is available online with a full-text search function. (<a href=\"http:\/\/passportsforlife.pl\/\"><strong>http:\/\/passportsforlife.pl\/<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year 2021 was designated as the Year of the \u0141ado\u015b Group by a resolution of the Polish parliament. The exhibition at the Holocaust Museum LA marks the closing of the international tour of the&nbsp;<em>Passports for Life<\/em>&nbsp;exhibition, which in 2021 visited Lithuania, Latvia, and the Czech Republic, among other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/dLKrUN295_A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10-December 31, 2021&nbsp; Holocaust Museum LA100 The Grove DrLos Angeles, CA 90036 The exhibition Passports for Life, devoted to efforts of rescuing European Jews during World War II, opened on Sunday, October 10, at the Holocaust Museum LA. The Exhibition will be on display until the end of 2021. The \u0141ado\u015b Group The \u0141ado\u015b [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":4978,"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":[5,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-polish-jewish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exhibition Passports for Life - Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"North Miami, FL\u2014The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition My Name is Maryan\u2014a monographic presentation of four decades of paintings, sculptures, drawings and film by the iconoclastic, ground-breaking Polish-born artist Maryan. 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The Exhibition will be on display until the end of 2021.\nThe \u0141ado\u015b Group\nThe \u0141ado\u015b Group, operating in Switzerland and composed of Polish diplomats and representatives of Jewish organizations, issued to Jews fake passports of neutral Latin American countries. The exhibition premiere in the oldest Holocaust Museum in the US is a result of the cooperation between the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles and the Pilecki Institute.\nPassports for Life - exhibition on \u0141ado\u015b's list\n80 years ago, in 1941, in Bern, Switzerland, Polish diplomats in cooperation with Jewish circles launched the so-called \u201cpassport initiative\u201d to save Jews from the Holocaust. Aleksander \u0141ado\u015b, Konstanty Rokicki, Abraham Silberschein, Chaim Eiss, Stefan Ryniewicz, and Juliusz K\u00fchl, also known as \u0141ado\u015b Group, issued fake passports and citizenship certificates of Latin American countries in the names of Jews threatened with extermination. It gave these individuals a chance to be interned and possibly exchanged for German prisoners of war, rather than being sent to death camps.\nThe Museum\u2019s CEO Beth Kean said: \u201cWe are thrilled to partner with Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles to host Passports for Life at Holocaust Museum LA for the first time it is exhibited in the United States. With rising anti-Semitism, worldwide humanitarian and refugee crises, and growing intolerance between communities worldwide, it is more important than ever to tell the stories of those who stood up and saved lives.\u201d\nThe Pilecki Institute, in cooperation with its partners in Poland and abroad, has for several years conducted research and archival queries on the activities of \u0141ado\u015b Group. This has resulted, among other things, in the publication in 2019 of the scientific study\u00a0\u0141ado\u015b List\u00a0with the names of more than three thousand people for whom passports were issued. The efforts of the researchers not only confirmed the course of action of the passport operation but also proved that we are dealing with one of the largest rescue operations carried out by diplomats during the Holocaust. \u00a0\nThe publication of \u0141ado\u015b List also made it possible to see its uniqueness. It has been established that not only Polish Jews were saved, but also citizens of other countries, including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia.\n\u201cThe story of the \u0141ado\u015b Group deserves to be told and shared. That is why we are happy that the Passports for Life exhibition [is] displayed in the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, founded by Holocaust survivors,\u201d said Jaros\u0142aw \u0141asi\u0144ski, Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles.\nThanks to the publication of \u0141ado\u015b List, the rescue operation of Polish diplomats in Switzerland has become the subject of international discussion, involving Holocaust survivors and their descendants, families of the diplomats involved in the operation, as well as scholars, journalists, and cultural figures. Families of survivors from all over the world, who discover the fate of their loved ones for the first time, come to the Pilecki Institute and share their stories, photos, and documents. That allows the research to continue and the list to be constantly updated with new names.\nAs of 2021, the \u0141ado\u015b List is available online with a full-text search function. (http:\/\/passportsforlife.pl\/).\nThe year 2021 was designated as the Year of the \u0141ado\u015b Group by a resolution of the Polish parliament. 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