Żagiew
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Żagiew (the Torch) was a collaborationist Jewish organisation in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the Second World War. Its primary goal was to infiltrate Polish underground organisations supporting or hiding Jews during Nazi occupation of Poland. Many Żagiew members were related to the Group 13. The Nazis had over a thousand Jewish Gestapo agents in the organization.[1] The agents were permitted to possess firearms by the Gestapo.
Żagiew agents were instrumental in organizing the Hotel Polski affair in Warsaw. The organization operated primarily within the Warsaw ghetto and most of its members were killed during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, most of them by the members of the Jewish resistance.
[edit] Notes
- ^ (English) Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1997). Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide…. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, p. 74. ISBN 0-7864-0371-3.
[edit] See also
- Group 13
- Abraham Gancwajch — the leader of Żagiew
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