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Hague to honour wartime British spy who saved Jews

June 15, 2012 09:46
Frank Foley

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Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

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Foreign Secretary William Hague is to unveil a plaque at a Jewish cemetery in honour of a British spy who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.

Major Frank Foley worked undercover for MI6, posing as a passport officer at the British Embassy in Berlin. He provided fake exit papers and acquired visas to help 10,000 German Jews escape.

He died in 1958 and was recognised as a "righteous among the nations" by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in 1999. Two years ago the British government named him a British Hero of the Holocaust.

Mr Hague will unveil the plaque at Hoop Lane Cemetery in Golders Green, north west London, next month. The initiative is being led by John Curtis, chairman of the joint burial committee of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation and West London Synagogue.

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