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Jewish Ghetto Police also known as the Jewish Police Service and referred to by the Jews

Jews

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as the Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police

Auxiliary police

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units organized in the Jewish ghettos of Europe

Ghettos in occupied Europe 1939-1944

During World War II, ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe were set up by the Third Reich in order to confine Jews and sometimes Gypsies into tightly packed areas of the cities...

by local Judenrat

Judenrat

Judenräte were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland, and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union It is the overall term for the enforcement bodies established by the Nazi occupiers to...

councils under orders of occupying German Nazis

Nazi Germany

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.

Members of the did not have official uniform

Uniform

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s, often wearing just an identifying armband

Armband

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and a badge, and were not allowed to carry firearm

Firearm

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s. They were used by the Germans

Germans

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primarily for securing the deportation

Deportation

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of other Jews to the concentration camps.

The Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst were Jews who usually had little prior association with the communities they oversaw (especially after the roundups and deportations to extermination camps began), and who could be relied upon to follow German orders. The first commander of the Warsaw ghetto

Ghetto

A ghetto is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues.The term was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. The term now refers to an overcrowded urban area often associated...

was Józef Szeryński

Józef Szeryński

Józef Andrzej Szeryński was a Polish-Jewish police-colonel inspector for the Lublin district and a commander of the Jewish Ghetto Police during the Second World War. Born Józef Szenkman, he changed his name and developed an anti-Semitic attitude, becoming a collaborator with the Nazis following...

, a Polish-Jewish police colonel who had converted to Christianity. He changed his name from Szenkman and developed an anti-Semitic attitude. Szerynski survived an assassination

Assassination

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attempt carried out by a member of the Jewish police, Yisrael Kanal, who was working on behalf of the underground Jewish Combat Organization. In ghettos where the Judenrat was resistant to German orders, the Jewish police were often used (as reportedly in Lutsk) to control or replace the council.

One of the largest police units was to be found in the Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in the Polish capital between October and November 15, 1940, in the territory of General Government of the German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity...

, where the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst numbered about 2500. The Łódź Ghetto had about 1200, and the Lviv Ghetto 500.

The Polish-Jewish historian and the Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum

Emanuel Ringelblum

Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyń, and the so-called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto.-Before the war:He...

has described the cruelty

Cruelty

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of the ghetto police as "at times greater than that of the Germans

Germans

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, the Ukrainians

Ukrainians

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and the Latvians

Latvians

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Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
The Jewish Police of the Warsaw Ghetto-shoaheducation.com
The "Order Rules" for the Police of the Warsaw Ghetto
The relations between Judenrat and the Jewish police
(Photo) Jewish Police in Westerbork camp
(Photo) Jewish Police Station in the 4th precinct of the Warsaw ghetto

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