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The Heroic Story of Żegota: Poland's Secret Resistance
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Most people have never heard of Żegota. That is a problem. In 1942, while Nazi occupation turned Poland into a killing field, a small group of Poles created something that existed nowhere else in occupied Europe. A secret government-funded council dedicated entirely to saving Jewish lives. They called it Żegota. It was founded in December 1942 by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, a Catholic writer who had already been inside Auschwitz and survived. She did not wait for permission. She acted. Żegota operated under the Polish Underground State. It had a budget. It had a network. It forged documents, paid bribes, found hiding
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