Lesson 23:Escape from the Nazis

Raoul then came up with another clever idea. Hedesigned a new type of passport. These were like specialpasses. Anyone who had one would be safe from Nazilaws against the Jews.On his business trips, Raoul had noticed that itwas easy to impress the Nazis with fancy documents.So he made his new passes look very grand. They werelarge and had Sweden’s royal symbols on them. Raoulincluded official stamps and names, too. These paperskept thousands of Jews safe.If Raoul heard the Nazis were getting ready tosend Jews to the death camps, he went right to thetrain station. Raoul wasn’t afraid of confronting theNazis. He gave passes to as many people as he could.Then he demanded that the Nazis release anyone whohad one.Raoul also put his training as a city plannerto work. He found ways to house a lot of people ina little space. He rented several buildings. Then hehung the Swedish flag out front. Anyone who lived inthese buildings was now considered neutral, too. For awhile, they were safe from the Nazis.9