When Rokicki left Poland’s diplomatic service in 1945, he was considered a very poor man. Later, he lived in a homeless shelter. Also, Ambassador Ładoś spent last years of his life in extreme poverty.
It is estimated that the number of people to whom Latin American documents were made at 8-9 thousand and Abraham Silberschein estimated it at 10 thousand. The Polish Embassy in Bern knows the names of more or less one third of them. Most of documents were sent to German-occupied Poland, including its territories annexed illegally by Germany. A large number went to Holland, where they saved numerous lives of Dutch and German Jews, some were sent also to France, Belgium, Slovakia, Hungary and other countries.
By now 682 documented survivors have been found, but given the fact that only one third of all passport owners were identified and the fate of only one sixth of them is known, we believe, that this number should be multiplied.
A house in which Rokicki falsified passports. Thunstrasse 21, Berno