ZEGOTA-Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland(1939-1945). ZEGOTA (in Polish:ŻEGOTA) was the cryptonym for the clandestine underground organization in German-Nazi- occupied Poland(1939-1945) that provide assistance to the Jewish people. World War2- 1939-1945. Would you risk your own life and your family's to save another human being? Zbigniew Brzezinski writes "ZEGOTA is the story of extraordinary heroism...tantamount to 'Schindler's List' multiplied a hundred-fold." ZEGOTA was the only such organization in German-occupied EUROPE during the Holocaust. More than 500 towns and villages were burned, over 16 thousand persons, mostly Polish Christians, were killed in 714 mass executions of which 60% were carried out by the Wehrmacht (German army) and 40% by the SS and Gestapo. In Bydgoszcz the first victims were boy scouts from 12 to 16 years old, shot in the marketplace. All this happened in the first eight weeks of the war. See Richard C. Lucas, The Forgotten Holocaust; The Poles...