Jazep Sažyč

Jazep Sažyč
Jazep Sažyč
Язэп Сажыч
	President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile
	In office; November 1980 – 1997
Preceded by	Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič
Succeeded by	Ivonka Survilla
Personal details
Born	5 September 1917; Haradziečna, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	November 19, 2007 (aged 90); Detroit, Michigan, United States
Political party	Belarusian Independence Party
Alma mater	University of Marburg
Profession	Military officer, Doctor

Jazep Sažyč (Belarusian: Язэп Сажыч, also Joseph Sazyc,^[1] 5 September 1917 – 19 November 2007) was a Belarusian politician and military commander.

Life in the Second Polish Republic

Jazep Sažyč was born in

Navahrudak. He worked as an accountant in a village store and enlisted as a student at the University of Lviv

.

However, with

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

.

He then went back to

Navahrudak where he joined Belarusian collaborators organizing military units. Sažyč served in the local pro-German police. In 1942 he was appointed commandant of the Under Officer School of the Belarusian Self Help. In February 1943 he was given the task to organize a Belarusian railway guard unit in Lida

. From July 1943 he taught at an officer school in Minsk.

In early 1944 Jazep Sažyč joined the

Biełaruskaja Krajovaja Abarona and, at the same time, the Belarusian Independence Party

.