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Frank Foley

British intelligence officer (1884–1958)

For the politician in Saskatchewan, Canada, see Frank Foley (politician).

Major Francis Edward FoleyCMG (24 November 1884 – 8 May 1958) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer. As a passport control officer for the British Embassy in Berlin, Foley "bent the rules" and helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War.^[1] He is officially recognised as a British Hero of the Holocaust and as a Righteous Among the Nations.

Early life

Foley was the third son of Isabella and Andrew Wood Foley, a Tiverton-born railway worker,^[2] whose family may have originated from Roscommon in Ireland in the early 1800s. After attending local schools in Somerset, Foley won a scholarship to Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, where he was educated by the Jesuits.^[3] He then went to a Catholicseminary in France to train as a priest but transferred to the Université de France in Poitiers to study Classics.^[4

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Britain’s Schindler: Frank Foley, the MI6 Spy Who Saved 10,000 German Jews

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Post-War Germany

Arriving in Berlin in 1920, Foley observed and reported on the political and social changes gripping Germany. Amid the anti-Semitic measures imposed by the Nazis, Foley risked his life repeatedly, flouting numerous Nazi laws to help Jewish individuals escape the country.

Notably, he entered concentration camps like Sachsenhausen, presenting visas to authorities to liberate Jews. Foley's selfless efforts extended to hiding Jews in his home and leveraging his covert skills to provide them with false papers, forged passports, and visas - even if it meant breaking laws.

His office became a beacon of hope as an increasing number of Jews sought immigration visas to Palestine, the UK, and other parts of the British Empire. Despite the risks, Foley courageously issued 10,000 visas for British Mandatory Palestine, defying authority and demonstrating exceptional humanity.

Operating without diplomatic immunity, Foley continuously risked his life. When he was finally evacuated from Berl

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Francis “Frank” Foley

Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6, honored one of its officers on January 30, 2018, for his role in saving an estimated 10,000 German Jews in Nazi Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. While stationed in the German British Embassy in Berlin, Major Francis Foley issued thousands of visas to German Jews seeking to flee Nazi persecution allowing them to immigrate to Britain or Palestine.

Foley was born on November 24, 1884 in Somerset, England. Foley graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Hertfordshire Regiment in 1917. He later was encouraged to apply for the Intelligence Corps and became part of a small unit in 1918, which was responsible for recruiting and running networks of secret agents in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. After the armistice, he served for a short time in the Inter-Allied Military Commission of Control in Cologne. He retired from the army in 1921.

Foley was subsequently offered the post of passport control officer in Berlin, which was a cover for his mai