History Of The Polish Zegota Organization

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The Polish Zegota Organization

Why didn 't anyone try to stop Hitler? The world felt sympathy towards the Jews during the Holocaust, but no one ever did anything about what was going on, that was until the Zegota came around. The Zegota were “both Jews and non-Jews helping shelter Jews and families in need during the Shoah,” (Maller). (The Shoah is another term used to describe the systematic elimination of the Jews). Zegota’s purpose was to save as many Jews as possible; if more people were to follow in the footsteps of Zegota, the slaughtering of the Jews could have been avoided or reduced.
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Who is Konrad Zegota? He is not a person actually; this was code name for the Polish Zegota Organization, Created in December of 1942, and going through January, 1945. The “Żegota helped save some 4,000 Polish Jews by …show more content…

The Zegota should truly be respected and more well known for their efforts. Zegota had some help from the wealthy Jewish community. In total, 90% of funding to Zegota came from the Polish government, 10% came from those willing to help, as they remained under cover throughout the war (Maller). Poland wasn 't the only support the Zegota had. It was equally important that the Jewish community worked with the organization to remain hidden and to keep the operations in order (Jensen). The zegota had done as much as they were able to, to help those who needed it. Zegota knew they could not save everyone who escaped the ghetto, but still, they were able to save thousands from certain death (Kopec). Though they did not have much to work with, Zegota used what they did have to the full extent. Zegota used the underground as means of transporting items, such as money supported to them from other organizations ("Jewish Resistance:Konrad”). The Polish government had to hide documents to keep the underground

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