Front for the Rebirth of Poland also translated as the Front for a Reborn Poland (Polish: Front Odrodzenia Polski, FOP) was a clandestine anti-Fascist organization formed in 1941 in occupied Poland during World War II, by a group of secular Catholics of Warsaw led by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Father Edmund Krauze. The Front upheld Christian ideals of the prewar Catholic Action movements existing in the Polish Second Republic as part of the cross national European groupings of lay Catholics.
 The Prawda newspaper, 1943, of the Front for the Rebirth of Poland, warning of death sentences for the denunciations of Jews and their Polish rescuers | |
| Formation | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Father Edmund Krauze |
| Type | Underground organization |
| Headquarters | Warsaw |
Region | occupied Poland |
History edit
The Front for a Reborn Poland (FOP) published its own publication called Prawda (The Truth), edited by Witold Bieńkowski who took active part in the organization of Żegota in the autumn of 1942. He was put in charge of the Jewish and prisoner sections of Żegota in February 1943 on behalf of the Delegatura.[1] The editor-in-chief was novelist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka who, until then, co-edited another underground paper called Polska Żyje (Poland Lives) already since the invasion of Poland in 1939.[2] Kossak-Szczucka, code-name 'Weronika', published her famous "Protest"[3] in The Truth publication in the summer of 1942.[4] Both Bieńkowski and Kossak-Szczucka as well as Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz worked in Żegota as representatives from the Front for a Reborn Poland (FOP).[5]
Notes edit
- ^ Jan Karski (2011). Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World. Penguin UK. p. 595. ISBN 978-0141968445.
- ^ Robert Alvis (2016). White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0823271733.
- ^ Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (August 1942). "The 'Protest', by Front for a Reborn Poland" [Odezwa „Protest!” konspiracyjnego Frontu Odrodzenia Polski pióra Zofii Kossak-Szczuckiej, sierpień 1942 r.]. Teksty źródłowe. Polacy i Holokaust. ZydziWPolsce.edu.pl.
- ^ Rachel Teo (December 5, 2005). "Resistance against the Holocaust by Catholic Laypeople". University of California, Department of History.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Joshua D. Zimmerman (5 June 2015). The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945. pp. 177–178. ISBN 9781107014268.
An official report detailing the activities of the organization between October and November 1942 revealed that it had representatives in fourteen [14] cities outside of Warsaw by the end of November.