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The Jewish Ghetto Police or Jewish Police Service (german: Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei or ''Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst''), also called the Jewish Police by Jews, were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local '' Judenrat'' (Jewish councils).
Judischer Ordnungsdienst
at Yad Vashem
The Relations between the Judenrat and the Jewish police
at Yad Vashem
Ghetto Police
at the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe {{DEFAULTSORT:Jewish Police (Holocaust) Police of Nazi Germany Police forces of Nazi Germany Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany Nazi terminology Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland Collaboration with the Axis Powers 1939 establishments in Poland 1943 disestablishments in Poland
The Jewish Ghetto Police or Jewish Police Service (german: Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei or ''Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst''), also called the Jewish Police by Jews, were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local '' Judenrat'' (Jewish councils).
Overview
Members of the Jewish Police did not usually have official uniforms, often wearing just an identifying armband, a hat, and a badge, and were not allowed to carryfirearm
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s, although they did carry batons. 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 Jewish police units was to be found in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst numbered about 2,500. The Łódź Ghetto had about 1,200, and the Lwów Ghetto 500.
Anatol Chari, a policeman in the Łodz Ghetto, in his memoirs describes his work protecting food depots, controlling bakery employees, as well as patrols aimed at the confiscation of food from the ghetto residents. He recounts the involvement of Jewish policemen in swindling food rations and in forcing women to provide sexual services in exchange for bread. The Polish-Jewish
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historian and Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum has described the cruelty of the ghetto Jewish police as "at times greater than that of the Germans, the Ukrainians and the Latvians."
The Jewish ghetto police ultimately shared the same fate with all their fellow ghetto inmates. On the ghettos' liquidation (1942–1943), they were either killed on-site or sent to extermination camps.
See also
* Kapo * Żagiew * Group 13 * Kraków Ghetto Jewish PoliceReferences
Further reading
* *''A Jewish Policeman in Lwow An Early Account, 1941-1943'' Ben Z. Redner Translator: Jerzy Michalowicz (2015)External links
Judischer Ordnungsdienst
at Yad Vashem
The Relations between the Judenrat and the Jewish police
at Yad Vashem
Ghetto Police
at the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe {{DEFAULTSORT:Jewish Police (Holocaust) Police of Nazi Germany Police forces of Nazi Germany Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany Nazi terminology Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland Collaboration with the Axis Powers 1939 establishments in Poland 1943 disestablishments in Poland