Passports, Profiteers, Police.

«I would like to have a Uru­gua­yan pass­port» – thus beg­ins Wła­dysław Szlengel’s song «Paszpor­ty» (pass­ports), com­po­sed in 1942 in the ghet­to of War­saw. It con­ti­nues: «I would like one for Uru­gu­ay, one for Cos­ta Rica, one for Para­gu­ay.» The Latin Ame­ri­can pass­ports are not a poe­tic inven­ti­on, but a his­to­ri­cal­ly veri­fia­ble ser­vice of help that ope­ra­ted from Switzerland.

The exhi­bi­ti­on cata­log «Pass­ports, Pro­fi­te­ers, Poli­ce. A Swiss War Secret» unveils the net­work that hel­ped thou­sands of Jews escape Ger­ma­ny and the occu­p­ied ter­ri­to­ries by pro­vi­ding them with Latin Ame­ri­can pass­ports, thus saving them from cer­tain death.

The cata­log is available in the muse­um store or from edi­ti­on clan­des­tin.