The archive is named after Chaim Eiss , a Jewish activist , who during World War II co-created the Bernese Group ( also known as the Ładoś Group ) , a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists led by the Polish ambassador to Switzerland in Bern , Aleksander Ładoś . During the war the group developed a system of illegal production of Latin American passports aimed at saving European Jews from The Holocaust . The documents are said to have made their way to Israel with one of Eiss ’ descendants after World War II
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Eiss Archive