Jakub Egit

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Jakub Egit ( Hebrew יעקב עגיט, * 1908 ; † 1996 ) was a Polish Jewish politician.

history

In 1945 Egit started a project to relocate 50,000 Jews to the town of Dzierżoniów (formerly Reichenbach), one of the areas that had come to Poland in the course of the westward displacement of Poland. His motivation was “exact restitution and justice by making former German settlements Jewish” ( “exact retribution and justice by making the former German territory a Jewish settlement” ).

Jakub Egit said, as President of the WKŻ - Wojewódzki komitet Żydów ( Voivodeship Committee of Jews) Lower Silesia : "My intention was to establish a Yiddish settlement in Lower Silesia" ( My intention was to establish a Yiddish Yischuv in Lower Silesia ). The Egits settlement project was supported by the CKŻP - Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (Central Committee of Jews in Poland ), which intended the settlement of an expected 100,000 so-called repatriated Jews from the Soviet Union in Lower Silesia.

With initial support from Soviet communists, a group of concentration camp survivors settled there according to Egit's plan, and Jewish schools, hospitals, orphanages and a publishing house were built in Wrocław . In 1948, after the founding of the state of Israel, the communists withdrew their support. Egit was imprisoned and most of the Dzierżoniów citizens emigrated to Israel .

He was the author of the J'idysz book in Warsaw . In 1957 he emigrated to Canada . In 1991 he published his autobiography Grand Illusion .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Grabski: Działalność komunistyczna wśród Żydów w Polsce (1944-1949) ( Polish ). Jewish Historical Institute , Warsaw 2004, p. 108.
  2. ↑ Ramona Bräu: "Aryanization" in Breslau - The "De-Judaization" of a German city and its discovery in the Polish memory discourse . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, pp. 103-109. (2 The utopia of revitalization - rebirth and fall of the Jewish community in Wroclaw 1945–1968)

literature

  • Jakub Egit. In: Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse
  • Jakub Egit: Grand Illusion , Toronto 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Egit, Jakub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Jewish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
DATE OF DEATH 1996