LADOS' LIST: Is "...an index of people for whom the Polish legation and Jewish organizations in Switzerland issued Latin American passports during the Second World War".
A downloadable copy is available in Polish and in English at: https://instytutpileckiego.pl/pl/instytut/aktualnosci/instytut-pileckiego-opublikowal-liste-nazwisk-3262-zydow-obj
According to the site, "Research results ...show that during WWII a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland attempted to save 8,000 to 10,000 people from the Holocaust. Jews. Representatives of the Polish Legation in Bern provided forged Latin American passports to threatened people. Researchers "..searched many archives, including Bad Arolsen, Yad Vashem, and the Archive of Modern Records, in Warsaw.... Lados' List show that 24-45% of Jews with forged documents from Paraguay, Honduras, Haiti or Peru survived the Holocaust.... Of this group 796 people definitely survived thanks to their passports, while 957 certainly did not survive the war. The fate of the rest is unknown...." It is surmised that"... Lados' group contributed to saving 2,000 to 3,000 people. Jews....Lados' group helped Jews from various European countries, but most of the identified passports were issued to people from occupied Poland and the Netherlands...When it comes to the documented group of survivors, the majority are Jews from Poland, the Netherlands and Germany....The published list includes the names of famous participants of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising...as well as leaders of Jewish resistance from Slovakia, France, and Italy...."
Presently, the list is 97 pages. In many, not all, cases the information includes birth and place of birth. In addition to the included downloaded list of names, there are probably another 5-7 thousand names that are still unknown.
When you get to the target page, scroll down for the download button.
Here is a sample:
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