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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 ...
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 ...
Marceli Godlewski was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who helped dozens of Jewish converts in his parish in the Warsaw Ghetto. [42] Andrzeja (Maria) Górska was a Polish Roman Catholic nun involved in the protection of Jewish children. [43] Julian Grobelny (President of Żegota) with wife Halina, rescued a large number of Jews, mostly children [44]
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.
The Bielski partisans were a unit of Polish Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought the German occupiers and their collaborators around Novogrudok and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus). The partisan unit was named after the Bielskis, a family of Polish Jews who organized and led the community.
One of the better-known Polish members of the Provisional Committee was professor Władysław Bartoszewski, who would later serve as Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995 and again in 2000-2001. Other members included Anna Maria Lasocka, wife of the President of the Polish Landowners Association, and social democrat Czesława Wojeńska.
Berek Joselewicz, Polish-Jewish Colonel in the Polish Legions of Napoleon's armies Bernard Mond , member of the Austrio—Hungarian Army, 1914–1918; Polish soldier and officer, 1918–1939; sent to POW camp by the Germans; finished his career in the rank of Brigade General and, in command of the 6th Infantry Division (Poland) , fought against ...
The Central Committee of Polish Jews also referred to as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and abbreviated CKŻP, (Polish: Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, Yiddish: צענטראלער קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן, romanized: Tsentraler Komitet fun di Yidn in Poyln) was a state-sponsored political representation of Jews in Poland at the end of World War II. [1]