Jakub Egit

Jakub Egit (Hebrew יעקב עגיט, * 1908, † 1990) was a Polish -Jewish politicians.

History

In 1945 Egit began a project by 50 000 Jews in the city Dzierżoniów (formerly Reichenbach ) to relocate, one of the areas that were acquired as part of the westward shift of Poland wurde.Seine motives a " exact reparation and justice by made ​​former German settlements in Jewish be " ( " exact retribution and justice by making the former German territory a Jewish settlement " ).

Jakub Egit said as President of the CC - Wojewódzki komitet Żydów ( Woiwodschaftskomitée the Jews ) Lower Silesia: " My intention was to create a Yiddish settlement of Lower Silesia" ("My intention what to establish_link a Yiddish Yishuv in Lower Silesia " ) The settlement project Egits. was the CKŻP - Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce ( Zentralkomitée of the Jews in Poland), the proposed settlement of the expected 100 000 so-called repatriated Jews from the Soviet Union in Lower Silesia, supported.

The Soviet Communists support Egits plan by a group settled concentration camp survivor there, with the establishment of Jewish schools, hospitals, fashion houses and publishing house in Wrocław. In 1948, after the establishment of Israel, the Communists withdrew their support. Egit was imprisoned and most citizens Dzierżoniów emigrated to Israel.

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