Article entitled "The Bern Group: A Rescue Story", regarding the forgery of thousands of Paraguayan passports by the Polish ambassador and consul in Switzerland during the Holocaust

Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Eiss, born in Galicia, 1876; moved to Switzerland, was a representative of Agudat Israel. With the outbreak of war and the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, he began working to obtain South American passports for members of ultra-Orthodox communities who wanted to escape from the communist regime. This activity served as the basis for the rescue operation of the Bern Group. Those involved in the Bern Group included Eiss and his secretary, Polish Ambass...