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

'''Jakub (Jacob) Egit''' (b. 1908) was a [[Zionist]] leader and [[Soviet]] soldier. In 1945 Egit began an experiment to relocate 50,000 Jews in the town of [[Dzierżoniów]] (formerly Reichenbach a [[recovered territory]] from the [[Third Reich]]) near [[Wrocław]] in [[Silesia]], [[Poland]]. Initially Egit was supported by the [[communists]] in his endeavour to ensure that "here in this land, which Germans had cultivated for so many years, the Jews could exact retribution and justice by making the former German territory a Jewish settlement". Egit's plan to set up a ''[[Yishuv]]'' went well for three years. Starting with a small group of [[Kazettler]]s - KZ (Concetration Camp) survivors - the ''[[Yishuv]]'' quickly grew to encompass schools, hospitals, [[kibbutzim]], orphanages and a book publishers in [[Wrocław]]. It ended, however, in 1948 when the [[communist]]s changed their policy, Egit was put in jail and the majority of [[Dzierżoniów]]'s citizens emigrated to [[Israel]]. From 1950 Egit was editor in [[Warsaw]] of ''[[J'idysz Buch]]''. Due to continued harassment Egit emigrated to [[Canada]] in 1957 where he became a prominent member of Canada's Jewish community. In 1991 he published his autobiography ''[[Grand Illusion]]'' (Toronto: Lugus)

'''Jakub (Jacob) Egit''' (b. 1908) was a [[Zionist]] leader and [[Soviet]] soldier. In 1945, Egit began an experiment to relocate 50,000 Jews in the town of [[Dzierżoniów]] (formerly Reichenbach a [[recovered territory]] from the [[Third Reich]]) near [[Wrocław]] in [[Silesia]], [[Poland]]. Initially Egit was supported by the [[communists]] in his endeavour to ensure that "here in this land, which Germans had cultivated for so many years, the Jews could exact retribution and justice by making the former German territory a Jewish settlement". Egit's plan to set up a ''[[Yishuv]]'' went well for three years. Starting with a small group of [[Kazettler]]s -— KZ (Concetration Camp) survivors -— the ''[[Yishuv]]'' quickly grew to encompass schools, hospitals, [[kibbutzim]], orphanages and a book publishers in [[Wrocław]]. It ended, however, in 1948 when the [[communist]]s changed their policy, Egit was put in jail and the majority of [[Dzierżoniów]]'s citizens emigrated to [[Israel]]. From 1950 Egit was editor in [[Warsaw]] of ''[[J'idysz Buch]]''. Due to continued harassment Egit emigrated to [[Canada]] in 1957 where he became a prominent member of Canada's Jewish community. In 1991 he published his autobiography ''[[Grand Illusion]]'' (Toronto: Lugus)

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

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]].