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20 Zlotys Poles Who Saved The Jews
| Issuer | National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued as part of Poland's long-running commemorative program honoring wartime rescue, this coin specifically recognizes the network of Poles who risked death — along with their entire families — under the German occupation's collective punishment laws. No other occupied country faced such an explicit death penalty for sheltering Jews, and Poland simultaneously produced both the largest organized rescue network (Żegota) and the highest raw number of Righteous Among the Nations honorees recognized by Yad Vashem.
Żegota, formally the Council to Aid Jews, operated from late 1942 until liberation, providing forged documents, safe houses, and financial support to an estimated 28,000 people.