Francis Edward Foley CMG ( 24 November 1884 , Highbridge , Somerset – 8 May 1958 , Stourbridge , Worcestershire ) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer . As a passport control officer for the British embassy in Berlin , Foley " bent the rules " and helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War . He is officially recognised as a British Hero of the Holocaust
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