ZEGOTA saved 50000 Jews from Holocaust 1/3

ZEGOTA-Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland(1939-1945). ZEGOTA (in Polish: ŻEGOTA) was the only government-sponsored (London-based Polish Government-in-Exile) social welfare agency established to rescue Jews in German-occupied EUROPE. It provided hiding places and false identify documents for Jewish men, women, and children who were able to escape from German-Nazi control and ultimately their efforts saved thousands of lives.

ZEGOTA (ŻEGOTA) distributed about 50,000 sets of false identification documents that were provided by secret forgery units of the underground. ŻEGOTA agents looked for homes and hiding places, including emergency shelters, to enable escaping Jews to get off the streets as quickly as possible.
A special section of ŻEGOTA was organized to get Jewish children out of the German Warsaw Ghetto after locating homes for them. The Jewish children also required false documents and stories to match. If they were old enough, they had to memorize new identities. ŻEGOTA rescued about 2,500 Jewish children in the city of Warsaw. IRENA SENDLEROWA (de domo: IRENA KRZYŻANOWSKA) (also IRENA SENDLER) played a leading role in the rescue and hiding of Jewish children. LIFE IN A JAR in You Tube. ZEGOTA was the only such organization in occupied Europe during the Holocaust.

Germans selected Poland as the only country where aiding a Jew, be it only to give him a slice of bread, was immediately punished by death. Failure to inform on a neighbor hiding Jews meant deportation to a GERMAN NAZI Concentration and Extermination Camp(1939-1945) AUSCHWITZ, BUCHENWALD, DACHAU, BERGEN BELSEN, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, MAUTHAUSEN, Neuengamme, GROSS-ROSEN, SZUCHA, PAWIAK, PALMIRY.

Few people know that among all the countries occupied by the German Third Reich during the Second World War(1939-1945) only in GERMAN-OCCUPIED POLAND was any kind of help to a person of Jewish faith or origin punishable by death. This penalty was widely announced by the occupying authorities. What is more, this punishment was quite often imposed not only on the rescuer, but also on his/her family, often on neighbors, and on whole towns or villages. The Germans believed in collective responsibility, trying to eliminate as many Poles, and Slavic people, as possible, making them the most terrorized populations after the Jews and the Gypsies. Close to THREE MILLION Polish Christians lost their lives by execution, torture, starvation, or overwork in more than 2,000 prisons, forced labor and concentration camps.

On August 22, 1939, a week before his attack on Poland, Hitler exhorted his nation: "Kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space we need." As many as 200,000 Polish children, deemed to have "Germanic" (Aryan) features, were forcibly taken to Germany to be raised as Germans, and had their birth records falsified. Very few of these children were reunited with their families after the war.
More than 500 towns and villages were burned, over 16 thousand persons, mostly Polish Christians, were killed in 714 mass executions of which 60% were carried out by the Wehrmacht (German army) and 40% by the SS and Gestapo. In Bydgoszcz the first victims were boy scouts from 12 to 16 years old, shot in the marketplace. All this happened in the first eight weeks of the war. See Richard C. Lucas, The Forgotten Holocaust; The Poles under German Occupation. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky [c1986].

According to the AB German Plan, Poles were to become a people without education, slaves for the German overlords. Secondary schools were closed; studying, keeping radios, or arms of any kind, or practicing any kind of trade were prohibited under the threat of death.
Out of its pre-war population of 36 million, Poland lost 22%, a higher percentage than any other country in Europe. The heaviest losses were sustained by educated classes, youth and democratic forces that could have challenged totalitarianism. See I. C. Pogonowski, Poland: A Historical Atlas. New York, Hippocrene Books, 1987.
Righteous Among the Nations:
POLAND- 6066 - more than from any other German Nazi-occupied country
Total Persons- 22,211

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[SillyGrandpa]

Much respect to the brave Polish people.

[ferdovit]

And Polish experience with Jews being so madly antipolonist... They always talk about antisemitic Poles and They are blind of Polish Righteous so many years... Jews often tell lies about Poles and this is true...

[licicaviki]

@APhilCollinsFan Yea fact is that West Germany owed freedom to Polish uprising in Warsaw 1944. Because Red army stop before Warsaw for two months the iron curtain was set on Elbe not Rhine... and Germans never thanks for this to Poles.

[licicaviki]

@APhilCollinsFan Yea We has moral satisfaction but Germans has money... gues what has more value in modern world?

[APhilCollinsFan]

Peoples of poland can be proud of themself , the german may have take your freedom, BUT,.. they never took your will to survive , .. your spirit, .. and foremost your incroyable courage facing terrible ennemi, ... you can walk your head high! you will remain forever a example to the world . ... from Canada

[MarcoBocoure]

@ferdovit well if that the case be wise......educate them / us ..... you say Polish and I hear Jewish..... you say Jewish iand I see Polish...such a brave country Poland has always been! Lets focus on what is good between us.

Pozdrawiam bardzo serdecznie

[reginaDexant]

@wawa23tomek Watch the You Tube video-Irena Sendler Sleeping With the Angels-It is a short memorial and sort of a documentary on her life-with a symphony background and it tells of her receiving the Nobel Prize. I think you will really enjoy it. Shalom!

[APhilCollinsFan]

l raise my hat to them ! they are heroes of the world.

[wawa23tomek]

Why did Irena Sendler, as she lived did not get the Nobel Peace Prize !!!

There is scandal !!!

[Ministry0fTruth]

The investigation on Pilecki's activities was supervised by

Colonel Roman Romkowski ( jew ) born Natan Grinszpan-Kikiel investigated by Josef Rozanski ( jew ) born Jozef Goldberg one of the most brutal

secret police interrogators he personally administered torture to Witold

Pilecki one of the Righteous Among Nations

[Ministry0fTruth]

Witold Pilecki a man who volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz

to help the jews to convince allies that Holocaust was taking place

on May 8 1947 was arrested by the communist security service ,repeatedly

tortured

[chris2002Rocklin]

I can't believe people objecting "thumbs down" for a comment based on a simple true and important statement.

I remember those jokes in grade school, and it was always from the kids with bigots for parents. We also know some of the other things out of their same potty mouths.

Disgusting people who can't even think for themselves. Where else could it come from but the Nazis? The same fascism is still alive today, with very little superficial differences.