Frank Foley (1884-1958) worked in Berlin from 1920 until 1939 as Passport Control Officer and as a member of the Secret Intelligence Service.However, it was Foley's heroic efforts in saving thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution which led to the unveiling of a plaque in his honour at the British Embassy in Berlin on 24 November 2004, the 120thanniversary of his birth. Foley risked his own life to save Jews threatened with death in the Third Reich. He did not have diplomatic immunity and was liable to arrest but he still went into concentration camps to get Jews out, hid them in his home and helped them get forged passports.

The old Passport Control Office in Tiergarten Strasseno longer exists but Frank Foley is now honoured nearby. Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said: 'Frank Foley risked his life to save the lives of thousands of German Jews. He was a true British hero. It is right that we should honour him at the British Embassy in Berlin, not far from where he once worked.'

The documents on the page below,selected by FCO Historians and distributed at the unveiling of the plaque, relate to Foley's work in Berlin from the Nazi assumption of power in January 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.