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during World War II, by a group of secular Catholics of

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led by

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and Father Edmund Krauze. The Front upheld Christian ideals of the prewar

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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 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

who, until then, co-edited another underground paper called ''Polska Żyje'' (Poland Lives) already since the

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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

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worked in Żegota as representatives from the ''Front for a Reborn Poland'' (FOP).

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Front Odrodzenia Polski Polish Underground State 1941 establishments in Poland