A Judenrat (German: [ˈjuːdn̩ˌʁaːt], lit. 'Jewish council') was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported...

were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local Judenrat (Jewish councils). Members of the Jewish Police did not usually have official...

the wake of military defeats on the Eastern Front. As the head of the Judenrat, Rumkowski is remembered for his speech Give Me Your Children, delivered...

the occupied area of central Poland. The Nazi-appointed Jewish Council (Judenrat) in Warsaw, a committee of 24 people headed by Adam Czerniaków, was responsible...

order in the ghettos. Formally, the Jewish police were subordinate to the Judenrats, but in most ghettos they quickly became independent of them and even...

National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for his monograph titled Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation published...

Ordnungsdienst, commonly abbreviated as OD). The OD were subordinated to the Judenrat (Jewish Council) of each ghetto. The Kraków OD, unlike many other Jewish...

school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council"), which had been established during the occupation. Soros...

Polish; 1905 – June 1943) was the head of the Jewish Community Council, or Judenrat, in the Sosnowiec Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland in...

Polish Jews should move to the new Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was responsible for the administration of the ghetto...

engineer of Jewish origin who was the last chairman of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Marek Lichtenbaum was born on...

engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing...

basis or by a standard of three people to one window. The Jewish Council (Judenrat) was responsible for determining the new housing assignments. Within the...

The Kraków Jewish Council (In German: Judenrat) was a 24-person Jewish managerial board formally established in the city of Kraków, Poland by German authorities...

extermination camps and other killing sites; the role of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) in choosing those to be deported has attracted significant controversy...

and those connected in a way or another to the Judenrat. All this was to intimidate and soften the Judenrat to the new upcoming measures. The day after,...

segregated by sex some family life continued. A Jewish community leadership (Judenrat) exercised some authority and tried to sustain the Jewish community while...

The Ústredňa Židov (ÚŽ; English: Jewish Center) was the Judenrat in Bratislava that was imposed on the Jewish community of the Axis-aligned state of Slovakia...

Ghetto with the Judenrat, and infiltrated Jewish opposition within the Ghetto. In July 1941, Group 13 lost its political status to the Judenrat, and the Office...

could come out of hiding. An estimated 200 Jews from Brzesko survived. The Judenrat was formed to meet the demands of the Germans for forced labor. Though...

Ghetto, and he was soon appointed by Nazi officials as a clerk for the Judenrat, the Kraków Ghetto's Jewish administration. Pemper also acted as a German-Polish...

creation of the Judenrat, or Jewish Council, with community-selected members. In early September 1941, the Germans murdered most of the Judenrat, which left...

militia. The Judenrat did not tolerate this, because the Nazis gave them an ultimatum to end the resistance or face extermination. The Judenrat knew that...

authorities. The transfer of Jews to a designated area was handled by the Judenrat (formed on June 30). All Poles who lived there were ordered to move out...

of Jews began with drafts into forced labor and the establishment of a Judenrat ("Jewish Council"). A ghetto was established in Irena in November 1940...

collected and sorted the furs and jewelry confiscated from the Jews by Judenrat ruled by Maria's brother Markus Horowitz, which were then sent to Lemberg...

a member of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam [nl; de] (Joodsche Raad or Judenrat) during the Second World War. Süskind was born in Lüdenscheid in Germany...

invaded Poland. With the establishment of the German Nazi reign in Poland, a Judenrat of 24 members was set up in Lublin. Shmuel, Henio's father, a teacher by...

strike. Another element of Nazi retaliation was the installation of a Judenrat in Amsterdam: the Jewish Council of Amsterdam [nl; de]. Hendrik Koot was...

1942 until the end of the Warsaw ghetto this was the last location of the Judenrat. The site also witnessed several clashes between the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish...