Were+the+efforts+of+the+Gentiles+organized?+Or+where+they+just+individual+efforts?

Most of the Efforts of the gentiles were individual as opposed to Organized, two great examples of individual effort are Oskar Shcindler and Prince Canstantin Karadja who together saved over 52,000 Jews in many different ways, the Prince was truly a hero because he used his stature (prince) to propell people to his cause and because of this he was able two help way more people than he could have on his own.[|Prince] [|Shcindler] I think the reason that Most of the efforts were individual is because there wernt many people in close proximity of each other that were willing to risk so much to help the Jews outside of Poland. Which is a shame because it is a common fact that when there are more people working together more gets accomplished, and they probaly couldve saved more people form the concentration camps.

But there were a few organized groups and as I reasoned before they were VERY sucsesful in their efforts to aid the Jews. The first one i heard about was called the Zegota Committee, they were a large group of Poles that were closely related to the Polish underground. They saved over a 4000 Jews in hiding by providing them with food and medical care, they also created false documents that saved many Jews that were hiding from the Nazis. They even smuggled money to those in the labor camps. There were other organizations in Poland like the "Jewish National Committee" and the "Bund" but Zegota was the biggest, together the three organizations saved over 28,000 people. Strange enough most of the Jews that were hiding were hard for the committee find until 1943 which is unfortunate because they could've saved many more people. They also snuck children out of the Warsaw and surrounding Ghettos. [|Zegota]

Acctually when you think about it, it was even more dangerous to work in groups than seperate, because if one person in an organization like Zegota were to get caught and the Nazis forced him to talk he could give up names and locations and he could unearth the entire organization. And put an indeffinate stop to all the good the oraniztation was doing and innocent people could get hurt. So i guess when it comes down to it even though organizations saved more people, it would be more benificial and safer for both the Gentile and the people he/she is helping if they would do it individually. Maybe this could have been the reasoning behind peoples decision to work alone.And I guess that when you think about it, the things that most people did like givng food to passing Jews and sheltering them is kind of individual anyway there isnt much of a way you could do that as a group.

But there were smaller organized efforts. That were not as much organizations as much as partnership, like those of Carl Lutz, who worked with the Hungarian Government to create letters of protection for the Jews. His efforts saved supposedly 10s of thousands of Jews in total. [|Carl Lutz]

- Andrew

This is a picture of some of the most important members of the Organization Zegota, this photo was taken at a meeting to honor the three year anniverasry of the first Warsaw ghetto uprising.