Żegota
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Żegota (pronounced [ʐɛˈɡɔta] ⓘ, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee"[1][2]) was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom przy Delegaturze Rządu RP na Kraj), an underground Polish resistance organization, and part of the Polish Underground State, active 1942–45 in German-occupied Poland.[3] Żegota was the successor institution to the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews and was established specifically to save Jews.[4][5] Poland was the only country in German-occupied Europe where such a government-established and -supported underground organization existed.[6][7][8][9]
Predecessor | Provisional Committee to Aid Jews |
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Formation | 27 September 1942; 81 years ago (1942-09-27) |
Founder | Henryk Woliński, |
Type | Underground organization |
Purpose | Help and distribution of relief funds to Polish Jews in World War II |
Headquarters | Warsaw |
Location | |
Region | German occupied Poland |
Key people | Henryk Woliński, Julian Grobelny, Ferdynand Arczyński, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, Adolf Berman, Leon Feiner, Władysław Bartoszewski |
Estimates of the number of Jews that Żegota provided aid to, and eventually saved, range from several thousands to tens of thousands.[8][10]
Operatives of Żegota worked in extreme circumstances – under threat of death by the Nazi forces.[8]