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The Jewish Police Service (), commonly known as Jewish Ghetto Police (), 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
Ghettos: 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 Ghetto Police, Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany Nazi terminology Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland 1939 establishments in Poland 1943 disestablishments in Poland
The Jewish Police Service (), commonly known as Jewish Ghetto Police (), 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 carry firearms, although they did carry Baton (law enforcement), 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 had 500. Anatol Chari, a policeman in the Łódź Ghetto, 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 historian and Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum has described the cruelty of the ghetto Jewish police as "at times greater than that of the Nazi Germany, Germans, the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, Ukrainians and the Latvian Auxiliary Police, 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 (concentration camp), Kapo *Żagiew *Group 13 *Kraków Ghetto Jewish PoliceReferences
Further reading
* *External links
Judischer Ordnungsdienst
at Yad Vashem
The Relations between the Judenrat and the Jewish police
at Yad Vashem
Ghettos: 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 Ghetto Police, Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany Nazi terminology Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland 1939 establishments in Poland 1943 disestablishments in Poland