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Ładoś Group, Bernese Group (Polish: grupa berneńska or grupa Ładosia, French: groupe bernois) is a name given to a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists who during Second World War elaborated in Switzerland a system of illegal production of Latin American passports aimed at saving European Jews from Holocaust.
The group consisted of four diplomats from the Polish Legation in Bern, a representative of the RELICO Assistance Committee for the Jewish Victims of the War established by the World Jewish Congress and a representative of Agudat Israel. Five out of six members had Polish citizenship, while half of them were Jewish.
The members of the Ładoś Group were:
- Aleksander Ładoś (1891–1963), Polish Envoy in Bern in the years 1940–1945.
- Dr. jur Abraham Silberschein (1881–1951), advocate, Zionist activist, pre-war deputy to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, founder of the rescue committee RELICO.
- [Konstanty Rokicki] (1899–1958), Polish consul in Bern in 1939–1945.
- Chaim Yisrael Eiss (1876–1943), a merchant, leading figure of Agudat Israel residing in Zurich.
- Stefan Ryniewicz (1903–1987), counselor of the Polish Legation in the years 1938–1945, Aleksander Ładoś’ deputy
- Juliusz Kühl (1913–1985), attaché of the Polish Legation, expert on contacts with Jewish diaspora in Switzerland.
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