/Poland Jewish Combat Organization Patches Set,ww2

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Jewish Combat Organization in Poland during ww2, Veteran's Patches Set ( for beret cap insignia and sleeve patch). Beret patch 2 3/4" x 2 1/4 " OR 56 x 7 cm), sleeve flag 2 3/4" x 1 3/4 " OR 45 x 70 mm).The Jewish Combat Organization , Polish - ŻOB ( often translated to English as the Jewish Fighting Organization) was a World War II resistance movement in occupied Poland, which was instrumental in organizing and launching the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ....ŻOB took part in a number of other resistance activities as well......The ŻOB was formed on 28 July 1942, six days after the German Nazis under SS General Jurgen Stroop began the Gross Aktion Warschau sealing the fate of the Jews confined in the Warsaw Ghetto: "All Jewish persons living in Warsaw, regardless of age and gender, [would] be resettled in the East." Thus began massive "deportations" of about 254,000 Jews, all of whom were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. The Gross Aktion lasted until 12 September 1942....... Overall it reduced the once thriving Warsaw Jewish community of some 400,000 to a mere 55,000 to 60,000 inhabitants.