A “true British hero” of the Holocaust who risked his life to save 10,000 German Jews has had his bravery marked at a Jewish cemetery.
The plaque honouring Major Frank Foley has been placed at the entrance to Hoop Lane cemetery in Golders Green, in the hope that his story will be remembered by the Jewish community in the years to come.
In the late 1930s, Major Foley worked as a passport officer at the British Embassy in Berlin. But the job was a cover; he was an MI5 agent and he did everything he could to help Jews escape Nazi Germany by providing them with visas, passports and other means of exit.
Despite having no diplomatic immunity and so risking his own life and the safety of his family, he sheltered Jews at his personal home as the city became increasingly dangerous in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
