Frank Foley

Frank Foley (actually Francis Edward Foley, * November 24, 1884 in Highbridge, Somerset, † 8 May 1958 in Stourbridge ) was a member of the British secret service MI6. It enabled the 1930s many Jews to escape from Germany.

This was possible because he was working for camouflage in the passport department of the British Embassy in Berlin. There he interpreted the visa requirements very generous and even provided fake papers. Although he enjoyed no diplomatic immunity, he even brought Jews from concentration camps and hid them in his own apartment.

1959 a memorial grove it was built on a hill near Jerusalem in honor of the rescued. 1999 Foley was awarded the title " Righteous Among the Nations " and a plaque in the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem. 2004 a memorial plaque in Foley's hometown Stourbridge was affixed; in the same year was erected on the site of the British Embassy in Berlin, a memorial stone.