The Żegota Monument is a stone monument dedicated to the

Żegota Żegota (, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee"Yad Vashem Shoa Resource CenterZegota/ref>) was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (), an underground Polish resistance organization, and part of th ...

organization, which rescued Jews during

the Holocaust in Poland The Holocaust saw the ghettoization, robbery, deportation and mass murder of Jews, alongside other groups under Nazi racial theories, similar racial pretexts in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland by the Nazi Germany. Over th ...

. It is on in the

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neighborhood of

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, Poland, near the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and the

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews () is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word ''Polin'' in the museum's English name means either "Poland" or "rest here" and relates to a legend about the arrival of the firs ...

Description

The monument has an inscription in three languages (

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and English) summarizing the story of Żegota (the organization is also known as the Council to Aid Jews with the

Government Delegation for Poland The Government Delegation for Poland () was an agency of the Polish Government in Exile during World War II. It was the highest authority of the Polish Secret State in occupied Poland and was headed by the Government Delegate for Poland, a ''d ...

). The inscription reads: "Relief Council For Jews 1942 Żegota 1945. The organization established by the

Polish Underground State The Polish Underground State (, also known as the Polish Secret State) was a single political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland ...

to rescue Jews of the Holocaust. It was the only such organization in

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which was sponsored and funded by its

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Unveiling

The monument, financed by the American Polonia, was designed by architects and . It was unveiled on 27 September 1995 by

Władysław Bartoszewski Władysław Bartoszewski (; 19 February 1922 – 24 April 2015) was a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War II resistance fighter as part of th ...

, at that time the last surviving member of Żegota. During the opening ceremony, prayers were offered by Warsaw Chief Rabbi and Bishop Stanislaw Gadecki. Other attendees included the ambassadors of Israel and the United States, and Polish-Jewish activist . The monument was placed next to an

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tree, planted in 1988 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the ...

. During commemorations and events related to the remembrance of the rescue of Jews during Holocaust in Poland, flowers are laid at the monument.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zegota Monument Holocaust memorials in Warsaw 1995 establishments in Poland 1995 sculptures Rescue of Jews by Poles in occupied Poland in 1939–1945 Outdoor sculptures in Warsaw Muranów (City Information System area)

Description

Unveiling

See also

References