Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 221-245
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish councils
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Names and characterizes the members of the Judenrat. Describes their double function: to carry out, often ruthlessly, the orders of the German occupiers to furnish money, valuables, and labor; and to see to order in the (open) ghetto and to the needs of its inhabitants, especially the thousands of Jews who reached Zamość as refugees or in transports from other parts of Poland and of Europe. Many members of the Judenrat, especially its head, Mieczysław Garfinkiel, were known to be corrupt; Garfinkiel was also accused of arrogance and of not relaying information on the gassing in Bełżec. In 1943 most of the Jews of Zamosc were deported to the extermination camps. They included most of the Judenrat, but some, among them Garfinkiel and most of his family, escaped and survived. Pp. 246-251 contain a testimony by Jaroslav Černý exonerating Garfinkiel and contending that he tried to save Jews.
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