(AP-New York Times) Polish President Andrzej Duda and descendants of Holocaust survivors held a ceremony Tuesday to honor a Polish diplomat in Switzerland who helped Jews escape Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II by issuing phony Latin American passports. Konstanty Rokicki was vice-consul at Poland's consulate in Bern. During 1942-43, he bought and otherwise obtained blank passports from countries including Paraguay, Honduras and Haiti, and filled them in with names and photographs of Polish Jews. Historians believe 330 people were known to have been saved thanks to such passports.
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