Captain Frank Foley, British Vice Consul in Charge of Visas in Berlin, 1933-1939

Captain Frank Foley was a Vice Consul in charge of visas in the British embassy in Berlin from 1929 to 1939.  He also worked as an MI6 intelligence agent.  Jewish officials estimate that he issued ten thousand visas to Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1939.  Ironically, these actions were a time when the British government was anxious to limit immigration, particularly to Palestine.  Despite British policy of giving few visas to Jews, it was known that Foley did everything he could to help.

Frank Foley died in 1958 at the age of 73.  Foley was designated by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations in 1999.