The Forgers

Many inspiring stories have emerged from the horror of the Holocaust. This is one of them. Moorhouse's account of the remarkable humanitarians who gave life to thousands of Jews by providing them with forged South American passports, is as gripping as it is moving

Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich

A powerful and painful book. The Forgers offers new details of the brave efforts of the Polish Underground to rescue Jews. It is heartbreaking when Moorhouse details the bureaucracy and bad intentions of the international community who knowingly turned their backs on these rescue operations. This is an intimate portrait of the cycles of hope and despair that the sadistic ruses and bestial atrocities of the Nazis imposed on concentration camp prisoners

Rosemary Sullivan, author of The Betrayal of Anne Frank

Every now and again a new story emerges about the Holocaust despite the wealth of literature already available. Roger Moorhouse is to be congratulated for finding the remarkable account of thousands of Jews rescued by the efforts of a determined circle of Polish helpers. Original and thought-provoking, the history of the Lados circle challenges the argument that there was no way for the Allies to rescue Jews from Hitler's Europe. With sufficient will and ingenuity, it was possible, against all the odds, to rescue a fraction of those otherwise doomed to die

Richard Overy, author of Blood and Ruins

Precise yet heartfelt. The Forgers is an important and harrowing contribution to Holocaust literature. Essential reading

Clare Mulley, author of The Women who Flew for Hitler

This is a powerful story about a group of brave individuals who found a unique way of saving Jewish lives from the Nazis. Moorhouse's original research is characteristically scholarly, his insights illuminating and his narrative gripping. An inspiring read and an important addition to the history of the Holocaust

Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Barbarossa

The Forgers is an important contribution to the way we understand international responses to the Holocaust. Powerfully told and meticulously researched, Moorhouse's new book outlines the courageous efforts of the Lados Group, a circle of Polish diplomats in Switzerland who provided false documents for thousands of Jews during the Second World War in an attempt to save as many as possible from persecution and death. The Forgers is an astonishing book about one of the most ambitious rescue operations of the Holocaust

Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall

Once again Roger Moorhouse has produced an original and thrilling narrative which challenges several of the stereotypes about World War II. A tremendous story.

Norman Davies, author of Vanished Kingdoms

The Forgers is a well-constructed and agreeably concise book with a clear narrative drive and fascinating detail ... Moorhouse's most laudable achievement is the light he shines on Lados and his team, who saved at least 2,000 Jews from extermination. Until now, they have not received the recognition they deserve

Gerard de Groot, The Times

Among the many remarkable aspects of The Forgers is the fact that the prime movers were Poles, many of whom were notorious for antisemitism ... [Moorhouse] does well to highlight that some Poles displayed admirable compassion.

Max Hastings, Sunday Times

Absorbing... It is a story that seems not to have been told much outside the academic literature, and it is deeply researched and well reported here

Spectator

In this fascinating book, Roger Moorhouse shines a light on extraordinary, audacious and little-known rescue operation

Mail on Sunday

Roger Moorhouse, the leading historian on Poland's war, publishes a full account of Lados's efforts in an excellent book on the passport ring

Daniel Finkelstein, The Times

There is much fascinating research in Moorhouse’s book

Times Literary Supplement

A captivating narrative of heroism and an illuminating account of the international diplomatic response to the Holocaust

Publishers Weekly

As gripping and dramatic…as any thriller… The Forgers does a remarkable job of shining a light on this little-known truth

Daily Express

Moorhouse…is one of today’s academic experts on 20th-century Central Europe… I knew little of the extraordinary story he recounts

Jewish Chronicle