Front for the Rebirth of Poland also translated as the Front for a Reborn Poland ( pl, Front Odrodzenia Polski, FOP) was a clandestine anti-Fascist organization formed in 1941 in
occupied Poland during World War II, by a group of secular Catholics of
Warsaw led by
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Father Edmund Krauze. The Front upheld Christian ideals of the prewar
Catholic Action movements existing in the
Polish Second Republic as part of the cross national European groupings of
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History
The ''Front for a Reborn Poland'' (FOP) published its own publication called ''Prawda'' (The Truth), edited by
Witold Bieńkowski
Witold Bieńkowski, code-name ''Wencki'' (1906–1965), was a Polish politician, publicist and leader of the Catholic underground organization called Front for a Reborn Poland (Front Odrodzenia Polski, F.O.P.) during World War II, as well as mem ...
who took active part in the organization of
Żegota in the autumn of 1942. He was put in charge of the Jewish and prisoner sections of Żegota in February 1943 on behalf of the ''
Delegatura''.
The editor-in-chief was novelist
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka who, until then, co-edited another underground paper called ''Polska Żyje'' (Poland Lives) already since the
invasion of Poland in 1939.
Kossak-Szczucka, code-name 'Weronika', published her famous "Protest"
in ''The Truth'' publication in the summer of 1942.
Both Bieńkowski and Kossak-Szczucka as well as
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz worked in Żegota as representatives from the ''Front for a Reborn Poland'' (FOP).
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Polish Underground State
1941 establishments in Poland