The Konrad Zegota Committee: Code Name For The Polish Council To Aid Jews In Poland

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. Eventually, the Germans found out about her activities and she was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death, but managed to evade execution and survive the rest of the war. The Konrad Zegota Committee was a code name for the Polish Council to Aid Jews and was an underground organization of Polish resistance in German occupied Poland, which was active from 1942 to 1945 ( Jewish Virtual Library, 2015 ). Zegota helped Jewish Poles find safe places for them in Poland.

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