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'''Jakub Egit''' (27 September 1908–1996)<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 [[Poland|Polish]] [[Jew]]ish leader. He was born in [[Boryslav|Boryslaw]], Poland. His older brother Marek, after whom his son is named, perished in the Flossenburg concentration camp January 1, 1945 on what is known as "the death march."
In 1945, Egit began a project to create a settlement of 50,000 Jews in the town of [[Dzierżoniów]] (formerly Reichenbach), a [[Recovered Territories|Recovered Territory]] near [[Wrocław]] in [[Silesia]], [[People's Republic of Poland]]. Egit's motivation was to "exact retribution and justice by making the former German territory a Jewish settlement".{{Who|date=March 2009}} Initially, with Soviet Communist support, Egit's plan went well; starting with a small group of concentration camp survivors, the settlement grew to encompass Jewish schools, hospitals, [[kibbutzim]], orphanages and a book publisher in [[Wrocław]]. However, in 1948 the Communists withdrew their 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 of ''[[J'idysz Buch]]'' in [[Warsaw]]. In 1957 he emigrated to [[Canada]], 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''.
Egit died in Florida in 1996.
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