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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Polish Righteous Among the Nations, Czeslaw Milosz, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Janusz Korczak, Jan Karski, Irena Sendler, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Karol Kuryluk, Jerzy Szacki, Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma, Andrey Sheptytsky, Stefan Korboński, Rudolf Weigl, Ludwik Kowalski, Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz, Podgorski sisters, Henryk Iwański, Irena Adamowicz, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Jerzy and Irena Krępec, Henryk Slawik, Jerzy Jan Lerski, Zofia Baniecka, Jan and Anna Puchalski, Henryk Woliński, Antoni Gawrylkiewicz, Maria Kotarba, Stanislaw Jasiński and Emilia Slodkowska, Irene Gut Opdyke, Alfreda and Boleslaw Pietraszek, Mieczyslaw Fogg, Krystyna Dańko, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński, Matylda Getter, Jan Żabiński, Anna Borkowska, Jozef Zwonarz, Julian Grobelny, Eryk Lipiński, Igor Newerly, Ferdynand Arczyński, Aleksander Kamiński, Jerzy Zagorski, Maria Fedecka, Jan Dobraczyński, Konrad Rudnicki, Jozef Adamowicz, Andrzej Garbuliński, Szczepan Bradlo, Stefan Jagodziński, Andrzej Milosz, Wanda Makuch-Korulska, Julian Bilecki. Excerpt: Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust. There are 6,266 Polish men and women recognized as "Righteous" to this day, amounting to over 25 per cent of the total number of 22,765 honorary titles awarded already. It is estimated that in fact hundreds of thousands of Poles concealed and aided hundreds of thousands of their Polish-Jewish neighbors. Many of these initiatives were carried out by individuals, but there also existed organized networks of Polish resistance who was dedicated to aiding Jews-most notably, the Żegota organization. In German-occupied Poland the task of rescuing...
