Members of the International Committee of the Ładoś Group
DR. Sebastian ŁADOŚ, Chair
Judge; relative of Aleksander Ładoś; author of Zanim Bóg odwróci wzrok [Before God Looks Away], about Ładoś.
Eric Saul, Vice Chair
Historian, researcher, educator and creator of the Visas for Life project, which deals with rescue operations carried out by diplomats from various countries.
Monika Maniewska, Secretary
Researcher and co-author of The Ładoś List; Deputy Manager in the Archival Department of the Pilecki Institute
Władysław T. Bartoszewski
Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland; son of Władysław Bartoszewski (Auschwitz survivor and resistance fighter – a recipient of the Yad Vashem award “Righteous Among the Nations”).
Markus Blechner
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Switzerland between 2012-2022; one of the first people to bring light to the subject.
Jeffrey K. Cymbler
Activist and expert on Jewish history from Będzin; founder of the Będzin-Sosnowiec-Zawiercie Area Research Society.
Dr. Piotr CYWIŃSKI
Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
dr. Danura Drywa
Head of the Documentation Department at the Stutthof Museum in Sztutowo.
K. Heidi Fishman
Daughter of Ruth Lichtenstern, who was saved by a Ładoś Group passport; author of Tutti’s Promise about her family’s survival, and one of the Ładoś Group discoverers.
Dr. Wojciech KOZŁOWSKI
Director of the Pilecki Institute.
Monika Krawczyk
Former Director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute.
Telecom industry manager. Son of Zygmunt Kuta, soldier of the 2nd Polish Division interned in Switzerland, 1940-1945.
Georges Kuta
ROGER MOORHOUSE
Historian and author specializing in modern German and Polish history. Author of the 2023 book The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation about the Ładoś Group.
Dr. Mordecai Paldiel
Historian; former head of the Righteous Committee at Yad Vashem.
Hanna Radziejowska
Director of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin.
Moshe and Judith Rappoport-Sternbuch
Members of the Switzerland-based Sternbuch family who were very active (mainly behind the scenes) in rescue efforts during the war.
Alexandra Reiter
Granddaughter of Stefan Ryniewicz.
Dr. Sebastian ReJak
Chief Development and External Relations Officer at the Jewish Community Centre of Kraków, JCC, former Director of the American Jewish Centre, Central Europe Office.
Malgorzata Sadkowska
Descendant of Konstanty Rokicki.
Michael Joseph Schudrich
Chief Rabbi of Poland.
Charles (Yechiel) Siegman
Survived the Shoah with Ładoś documents; retired international economist.
Dafna Siegman
Daughter of a Shoah survivor who had Ładoś documents; Jewish educator.
Uri Strauss
Survived the Shoah with a Ładoś passport; a photographer.
dr. ANNA STRÓŻ-PAWŁOWSKA
Manager of the “Called by Name” Department at the Pilecki Institute; former director of the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II.
dr. MATEUSZ SZPYTMA
Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance.
PAWEŁ ZALEWSKI
Historian and Polish MP.