1. Zofia Kossak-Szczucka co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Zegota, set up to assist Polish Jews to escape the Holocaust.
11 Facts About Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was associated with the Czartak literary group, and wrote mainly for the Catholic press.
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The world, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka wrote, was silent in the face of this atrocity.
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka saw this largely as an issue of religious ethics.
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka co-founded the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews, which later turned into the council to Aid Jews, codenamed Zegota, an underground organization whose sole purpose was to save Jews in Poland from Nazi extermination.
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On 27 September 1943, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was arrested in Warsaw by a German street patrol.
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was released in July 1944 through the efforts of the Polish underground and participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka strongly advised her to leave the country immediately for her own protection, knowing what his government would do to political enemies, and knowing from his brother, Adolf Berman, what Kossak had done to save Jewish lives.
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka wrote books for children and teenagers, including Bursztyn and Grod nad jeziorem.
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In 2018 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Kossak was awarded the highest Polish order, the Order of the White Eagle.
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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was the author of many works, a number of which have been translated into English.