The passport matters
Director
Roland Dubiel
Production year
2018
Production
Poland
Duration
32 min.
Producer
Gmina Głogów Małopolski
The passport matters
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During the Holocaust, Aleksander Ładoś, a member of parliament in office from 1940 to 1945, and his subordinates—Counselor Stefan Ryniewicz, Consul Konstanty Rokicki, and Attaché Juliusz Kühl—fabricated several thousand Latin American passports, allowing friendly Jewish organizations to smuggle them into the ghettos of occupied Poland.
Holders of these passports were excluded from deportation to extermination camps and sent to internment camps. Although many of them were murdered by the Germans later in the war, Ładoś and his men contributed to the survival of hundreds. The film consists of reenactments of interrogations, interviews, and conversations with historians.
