Żegota
Sign in to saveŻegota (, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee") was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (), an underground Polish resistance organization, and part of the Polish Underground State, active 1942–45 in German-occupied Poland. Żegota was the successor institution to the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews and was established specifically to save Jews. Poland was the only country in German-occupied Europe where such a government-established and -supported underground organization existed.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- Żegota Council to Aid Jews
- Organization.native_name_lang
- pl
- Organization.image
- Zegota(Rada Pomocy Zydom)1946.jpg
- Organization.image_size
- 300px
- Organization.caption
- Third anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Żegota members, Warsaw, April 1946. Seated, from right: Piotr Gajewski, Ferdynand Marek Arczyński, Władysław Bartoszewski, Adolf Berman, .
- Organization.predecessor
- Provisional Committee to Aid Jews
- Organization.founder
- Henryk Woliński,
- Organization.type
- Underground organization
- Organization.purpose
- Help and distribution of relief funds to Polish Jews in World War II
- Organization.headquarters
- Warsaw
- Organization.location
- Kraków, Wilno, Lwów
- Organization.region
- German occupied Poland
- Organization.key_people
- Henryk Woliński, Julian Grobelny, Ferdynand Arczyński, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, Adolf Berman, Leon Feiner, Władysław Bartoszewski
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- Origins
- Operations
- Challenges
- Financial situation
- Prominent activists
- Postwar recognition
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
Żegota (, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee") was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (), an underground Polish resistance organization, and part of the Polish Underground State, active 1942–45 in German-occupied Poland. Żegota was the successor institution to the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews and was established specifically to save Jews. Poland was the only country in German-occupied Europe where such a government-established and -supported underground organization existed.
Estimates of the number of Jews that Żegota provided aid to, and eventually saved, range from several thousands to tens of thousands.
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