Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2013) 147-160
Keywords:
Płaszów (Concentration camp)
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Police
;
Krakow (Poland)
Abstract:
The first Jewish police force in Kraków, which was subordinate to the Judenrat, was established in July 1940. Initially it consisted of only 40 men, but later grew to more than 100. After the establishment of the ghetto in Kraków, it became the "ghetto police". Beginning as a force for keeping order, the "Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst" was increasingly involved in the implementation of Nazi anti-Jewish policies; it took part in the resettlement of Jews to ghettos and camps, and even in murders. After the liquidation of the Kraków ghetto in 1943, some of the Jewish policemen were killed and the rest were used by the Nazis for policing the Płaszów labor camp. After the war, the small number of Jewish policemen who had survived were brought to trial but they were acquitted.
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