Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie

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1942-02-14/1945-01-20

Subordinated to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland) and the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) formed on 1942-02-14 the Armia Krajowa. During the war it became an umbrella organization of resistance groups. Attacks were limited to confiscating supplies, burning food-quota documents, and, perhaps, crippling machinery. This modus operandi denoted the desire of the independentists to avoid German reprisals against the people and the destruction of property which, after all, was Polish and would be used after the ...

• The Government Delegation for Poland

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1940/1945

Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj was a conspiratorial agency in the country of the Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie (Polish Government-in-Exile) from 1940 till 1945. It was part of the Polskie Państwo Podziemne (Polish Underground State). It organized civil administration and was preparing the conditions for the polish government for assuming power in liberated Poland. It also created local administration, secret schools, recorded losses and crimes against the Polish nation, developed plans for the future of Western and Northern territories and organized “Żego...

• Council for Aid to Jews

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1942-12/1945-01

ŻEGOTA is a Polish name for the underground Rada Pomocy Żydom. ŻEGOTA was initiated by writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and it included both Jews and non-Jews from many different political movements. Despite their differences, they were motivated to fight the injustices perpetrated by the Nazis. By the summer of 1944, ŻEGOTA was helping 4,000 Jews. However, they were unable to provide aid for more people due to a chronic shortage of funding. ŻEGOTA furnished many Jews with false identification papers, money, and safe hiding places. Despite the death penalty imposed on people who hid Jews, ŻEGO...

• Jewish National Committee
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The political leadership of Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy, and the organization had about 500 members. Its units fought in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto under the command of Mordechaj Anielewicz.