Jewish Police (Holocaust)

Jewish Ghetto Police (German: " _de. Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei", " _de. Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst"), also known as the Jewish Order Service and referred by the Jews as the Jewish Police, were the auxiliary police units organized in the Jewish ghettos by the local Judenrat councils under German Nazi orders.cite web
url= http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x11/xm1188.html
title= Judischer Ordnungsdienst
accessdate= 2008-01-14
work= Museum of Tolerance
publisher= Simon Wiesenthal Center] The Jewish Order Service was also active in some of the Nazi concentration camps.

Members of the " _de. Judendienstordnung" did not have official uniforms (often having just an armband) and were not allowed to carry firearms. They were used by the Germans primarily for securing the deportation of other Jews to the concentration camps.

The "Judendienstordnung" were often comprised of Jews who usually had no prior association with the community 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 was Josef Szerynski, a former Polish police inspector, was an ardent anti-semite who had converted to Christianity. Szerynski survived an assassination 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 to control or replace the council. The Polish-Jewish historian and the Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum described the cruelty of the ghetto police as "at times greater than that of the Germans, the Ukrainians and the Latvians."cite web
url= http://academic.kellogg.edu/mandel/collins_rev.htm
title= Am I a Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (review)
accessdate= 2008-01-13
last= Collins
first= Jeanna R.
work= Mandel Fellowship Book Reviews
publisher= Kellogg Community College]

ee also

*Kapo

References

External links

* [http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/month_in_holocaust/august/august_lexicon/JEWISH_GHETTO_POLICE.html Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst] Yad Vashem
* [http://www.shoaheducation.com/jewishpolice.html The Jewish Police of the Warsaw Ghetto-shoaheducation.com]
* [http://www.shoaheducation.com/orderrules.html The "Order Rules" for the Police of the Warsaw Ghetto]
*(Photo) [http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/11548.htm Jewish Police in Westerbork camp]
*(Photo) [http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery/p146.htm Jewish Police Station in the 4th precinct of the Warsaw ghetto]