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    Żegota (pronounced [ʐɛˈɡɔta] , full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee") was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland...
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  • Żegota was a Polish World War II resistance organization founded by the Armia Krajowa to help the Jews during the Holocaust. Żegota may also refer to:...
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    The Żegota Monument is a stone monument dedicated to the Żegota organization, which rescued Jews during the Holocaust in Poland. It is on Anielewicza...
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    Irena Sendler (category Żegota members)
    German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom). In the 1930s...
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    Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander...
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    Żegota, attended to sick Jews in hiding and placed them in hospitals under false identities. Żegota also had prominence in Kraków. The goal of Żegota...
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    Pflanzer-Baltin, Emil Schultheiss, Zygmunt Zieliński, Marian Januszajtis-Żegota. Zygmunt Nasalski: Legiony Polskie w dolinie Złotej Bystrzycy; In: Płaj...
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    of Righteous Among the Nations by country Righteousness Virtuous pagan Żegota While the title of Righteous is awarded to individuals, not groups, the...
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    Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (category Żegota members)
    co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up to assist Polish Jews to escape the Holocaust. In 1943, she was...
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    victims, documentation and technical Organizations AK AOB Bund GL PKB Żegota ŻOB ŻZW Uprisings Ghetto uprisings Białystok Częstochowa Sobibor Treblinka...
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    Polish resistance which were dedicated to aiding Jews – most notably, the Żegota organization. In German-occupied Poland, the task of rescuing Jews was difficult...
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    Polish researchers overstate the achievements of the Żegota organization (including members of Żegota themselves, along with venerable historians like Prof...
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    Częstochowa Rescue Aid and Rescue Committee Attack on the twentieth convoy Kastner train Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Danish underground Working Group Żegota...
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    help their Jewish neighbors. There were also groups, such as the Polish Żegota organization, that took drastic and dangerous steps to rescue victims. Witold...
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    their families, to save the Jews from the Nazis. Moreover, Poles created "Żegota" – the only organization in occupied Europe, entirely focused on helping...
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    of the Constitution of Russia. Charter of Kaliningrad Oblast, Article 3 Żegota, Krzysztof (2017). "The Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation as...
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  • (thus over 50,000) were aided in some shape or form by Żegota. The most known activist of Żegota was Irena Sendler head of the children's division who...
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  • Siarkowski, Jan Świętek, Seweryn Udziela, Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, Żegota Pauli, Karol Baliński and Lucjan Siemieński). Polish Academy of Sciences...
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    000 people acted as blackmailers and informants. In the summer of 1942, Żegota, a Polish underground organization dedicated to aiding the Jews, requested...
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    known by the code name Żegota and chaired by Julian Grobelny. It is not known how many Jews, overall, were helped by Żegota; at one point in 1943 it...
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    over Poland, or in various camps. The secret Polish Council to Aid Jews, "Żegota", established by the Polish resistance movement, operated in the region...
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  • Hungarian Social Service Sisterhood saved thousands. In Poland, the unique Żegota organisation also rescued thousands and Mother Matylda Getter's Franciscan...
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  • Moraczewski and Józef Piłsudski. The coup's leaders included Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Prince Eustachy Sapieha. The coup forces succeeded in arresting Moraczewski's...
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    during the Holocaust in Poland. The secret Polish Council to Aid Jews "Żegota", established by the Polish resistance movement operated in the city. There...
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    Poland). On 5 January 1919, some of Dmowski's supporters (Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Eustachy Sapieha) attempted a coup against Piłsudski but failed. On...
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    ghetto was punishable by death. The secret Polish Council to Aid Jews "Żegota", established by the Polish resistance movement operated in the city. Radom...
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    Departed, 1998) Władysław Bartoszewski – Polish resistance activist of the Żegota organization in Warsaw. Henryk Iwański – Polish resistance officer in the...
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  • World War II resistance fighter, co-founder the wartime Polish organization Żegota. Released through the efforts of the Polish underground. Henri Landwirth...
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    organizations. The Home Army also supported the Relief Council for Jews in Poland (Żegota) as well as the formation of Jewish resistance organizations. From 1940...
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    ghetto to be liquidated, in August 1944. The Polish resistance movement (Żegota) operated in the city and aided the Jewish people throughout its existence...
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