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Peter Torry, right, explains to Elisheva Lernau a memorial stone in memory to Frank Foley inside British embassy in Berlin Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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from the Nazis is being remembered with a plaque being placed outside the British embassy in Berlin. www.yingyu6.com
Frank Foley was based buy moncler men's jacket online in Berlin in the 1930s, working as a passport control officer, and using his position to provide papers for Jewish people.
It is believed Mr Foley saved tens of thousands of lives, even hiding people in his own home.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw described him as "a true British hero".
Eyewitnesses recall Mr Foley as an cheap moncler jackets Sale
unassuming hero - a small, slightly overweight man with round glasses .
But he was actually Britain's top spy in the city.
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on visas loosely, enabling Jews to escape to Britain and Palestine, but he also helped to forge passports. And, despite not having diplomatic immunity, he gave shelter to some people in his own home. Mr Foley's efforts have already been moncler coats stores
recognised by Israel, which declared him a righteous gentile, like Oskar Schindler, and he has also been honoured by his home town of Stourbridge in the West Midlands. Michael Smith of the Daily buy cheap moncler coats Telegraph, who wrote a book about him, said that although it is not known exactly how many lives Mr Foley saved, archive evidence would suggest the number was in the tens of thousands. He said, "With replica moncler boots Schindler you had 1,400 people working in a factory, working with him, they worked closely together. Their lives were together. "So when they moved to Palestine, which later wholesale moncler boots
became Israel, they are all talking to each other, they are still on the phone to each other even if they are not living in Israel - they have a collective memory of what Schindler did.
"But with Foley a lot of moncler boots online
the people he helped probably didn't even know he helped them.
"They were helped in ones or twos or in small family units - five or six people perhaps. They have got to Palestine. They have a visa they know they shouldn't have - they are not going to talk about it." Cj