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'''Jakub Egit''' (27 September 1908 &ndash; 1996)<ref name="Grabski">{{cite book|last = Grabski|first = August|title = Działalność komunistyczna wśród Żydów w Polsce (1944-1949)|publisher = [[Jewish Historical Institute]]|date = 2004|___location = [[Warsaw]]|page = 108|language = Polish}}</ref> was a Polish [[Jew]]ish leader. He was born in [[Boryslav|Boryslaw]], [[Austria-Hungary]]. His parents, Marek and Shaindel, and his siblings, Marcus, Rachel, Reisl, Jonas and Genia, were all killed between 1943 and 1945.

'''Jakub (Jacob) Egit''' (born 1908) was a [[Zionist]] leader and [[Soviet]] soldier.

In 1945, Egit began ana experimentproject to relocatecreate a settlement of 50,000 Jews in [[Dzierżoniów County]] (formerly Reichenbach), incl. the town of [[Dzierżoniów]] (formerlythe Reichenbachpeak anumber [[recoveredof territory]]Jews fromin theDrobniszew reached 17,800 in November 1946<ref>[[Thirdhttp://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/dzierzoniow/5,history/?action=view&page=10 Jewish community before Reich1989]]) near{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322142355/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/dzierzoniow/5,history/?action=view |date=2016-03-22 }}</ref>), [[WrocławBielawa]] in, [[SilesiaPieszyce]], [[PolandPiława Górna]], etc., Initiallya Egit[[Recovered wasTerritories|Recovered supportedTerritory]] by thenear [[communistsWrocław]] in his endeavour to ensure that "here in this land[[Silesia]], which[[People's GermansRepublic hadof cultivatedPoland]]. forEgit sowanted manyto years, the Jews could exact retribution and justice by makingmake the former German territory into a Jewish settlement". Egit'sInitially, planwith toSoviet setCommunist upsupport, aEgit's ''[[Yishuv]]''plan went well; for three years. Startingstarting with a small group of [[Kazettler]]sconcentration &mdash; KZ (Concetration Camp)camp survivors &mdash;, the ''[[Yishuv]]'' quicklysettlement grew to encompass Jewish schools, hospitals, [[kibbutzim]], orphanages and a book publisherspublisher in [[Wrocław]]. It ended, howeverHowever, in 1948 when the [[communist]]sCommunists changedwithdrew their policy,support. Egit was put in jail and the majority of [[Dzierżoniów]]'s citizens subsequently emigrated to [[Israel]].

From his release in 1950, Egit was editor in [[Warsaw]] of ''[[J'idysz Buch]]''. Duein to[[Warsaw]]. continued harassmentIn Egit1957 he emigrated to [[Canada]] in 1957, where he became a prominent member of [[History of the Jews in Canada|Canada's Jewish community]]. In 1991, he published his autobiography ''[[Grand Illusion]]'' (Toronto: Lugus).

Egit died in Florida in 1996.

More recently Egit has become a target for [[Polish Catholic anti-Semitic revisionist]]s who deny the [[Holocaust]] and seek to source the rise of [[Communism]] to a [[Jewish conspiracy]].

==References==

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*''Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City'' Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse.

*''Grand Illusion'', Jacob Egit

==Further reading==

* ''Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City'' [[Norman Davies]] and [[Roger Moorhouse.]]

* ''Grand Illusion'', Jacob Egit

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