Sunday, January 11, 2015

The Swedes who told the world about the Holocaust: Forgotten heroes of WWII who were sentenced to death for smuggling proof of Nazi murders out of Poland

  • The 'Warsaw Swedes' worked in Poland before and during WWII
  • They helped the Polish resistance smuggle documents and information
  • Sven Norrman smuggled the first proof of The Holocaust in May 1942
  • The BBC told the world about Nazi persecution of Jews weeks later 
  • The Warsaw Swedes were arrested by Gestapo and sentenced to death
  • Forgotten hero: Sven Norrman, responsible for couriering the documents that would reveal the Nazi Holocaust and slaughter of 700,000 Polish Jews out of Warsaw, pictured with his Polish-Jewish mistress Gizela 'Iza' Zbyszynska in the years after the war
    Forgotten hero: Sven Norrman, responsible for couriering the documents that would reveal the Nazi Holocaust and slaughter of 700,000 Polish Jews out of Warsaw, pictured with his Polish-Jewish mistress Gizela 'Iza' Zbyszynska in the years after the war
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