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Death penalty for the rescue of Jews in occupied Poland Public announcement NOTICE Concerning: the Sheltering of Escaping Jews. There is a need for a reminder, that in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the decree of 15 October 1941, on the Limitation of Residence in General Government (page 595 of the GG Register) Jews leaving the Jewish Quarter without permission will incur the death penalty ...
Ładoś Group, Bernese Group (Polish: grupa berneńska or grupa Ładosia, French: groupe bernois) is a name given to a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists who during Second World War elaborated in Switzerland a system of illegal production of Latin American passports aimed at saving European Jews from the Holocaust.
Poland had a very large Jewish population, and, according to Norman Davies, more Jews were both killed and rescued in Poland than in any other nation: the rescue figure usually being put at between 100,000–150,000. [14] The memorial at Bełżec extermination camp commemorates 600,000 murdered Jews and 1,500 Poles who tried to save Jews.
Jewish soldiers received kosher food and their religious holidays were respected. [5]: 107–108 Bernard Mond, the only Polish Jew to reach the rank of general in the Second Polish Republic. The percentage of Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army varied from about 3.5% to 6.5% depending on the year and source; in 1938 it was estimated to be around 6%.
Before World War II, Poland's Jewish community had numbered about 3,460,000 – about 9.7 percent of the country's total population. [5] Following the invasion of Poland, Germany's Nazi regime sent millions of deportees from every European country to the concentration and forced-labor camps set up in the General Government territory of occupied Poland and across the Polish areas annexed by ...
However, the Polish Government quickly responded by closing the border down and denying any further access. [9] In the city of Leipzig, 1,300 Polish Jews were able to find refuge in the Polish consulate, assisted there by the Consul General Feliks Chiczewski. By October 30, thousands of homeless Jews resided in no-man's land along the border.
American Federation for Polish Jews (formerly known as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews or Federation of Polish Jews in America.) was a non-governmental organization founded in 1908 in New York, USA, as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews. Publisher of The Black Book of Polish Jewry in 1943. [1]
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [5]) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November 27, 1881, originally to help the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States who had left Europe to escape antisemitic persecution and violence. [1]