Jakub (Jacob) Egit 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, … Wikipedia
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