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...

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...

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...

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

position he was the leader and person most responsible to the Nazis for the Judenrat or governing council of the ghetto, the body that was responsible for 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

Turkic peoples Uzbek language (ISO 639-1 code "uz") Ústredňa Židov, a Judenrat in Slovakia during the Holocaust Toyota UZ engine Uzès, a commune of the...

Divide and rule Eliezer Gruenbaum, notable kapo Jewish Ghetto Police Judenrat - Jewish councils under Nazi administration for self-government in Ghettos...

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...

from the Judenrat and the demands were much crueler. Death was the punishment for the slightest indication of noncompliance by the Judenrat. Sometimes...

these rumors. Their leader was Leon Feldhendler, a former member of the Judenrat in Żółkiewka. His job in the sorting barracks gave him access to additional...

the Kurc family is painfully tested by his role in the Jewish Police or Judenrat Michael Aloni as Selim Kajler, a doctor, Mila's husband and Felicia's father...

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...

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

among the Poles and Jews who dominate the story. Sometimes Jews and the Judenrat councils are shown complying with the occupiers; some trick other Jews...

Adam Czerniakow, the head of the Warsaw Judenrat, and the director of Post Office No. C-I, agreed that the Judenrat would handle all mail within the ghetto...

needed] On 19 March 1944, German troops entered the city. They established a Judenrat (Jewish council) and set up two ghettos, at the Moskovitz brickyard and...

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...

including King of the Jews (1979), about Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat of the Łódź ghetto during World War II; and Pandaemonium (1997). His San...

was a Hungarian Jewish merchant and religious leader. He presided the Judenrat in Szombathely during the Holocaust. Manó Vályi was born as Weiner into...

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...