A Judenrat (German: [ˈjuːdn̩ˌʁaːt], lit. 'Jewish council') was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported...
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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...
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were auxiliary police units organized within the Nazi ghettos by local Judenrat (Jewish councils). Members of the Jewish Police did not usually have official...
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"cooperation" in this way is problematic with regard to the activities of some Judenrat leaders and Jewish police, who were corrupt and despotic, and whose actions...
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Jacob Gens (section Relations with the Judenrat)
creation of the Judenrat, or Jewish Council, with community-selected members. In early September 1941, the Germans murdered most of the Judenrat, which left...
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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...
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Kraków Ghetto Jewish Council (redirect from Krakow Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat))
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...
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segregated by sex some family life continued. A Jewish community leadership (Judenrat) exercised some authority and tried to sustain the Jewish community while...
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Isaiah Trunk (section Judenrat)
National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for his monograph titled Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation published...
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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...
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Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst, often abbreviated as OD. The OD were overseen by the Judenrat of each ghetto. The Kraków OD, unlike many other Jewish Police forces,...
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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...
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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...
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Adam Czerniaków (category Judenrat)
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...
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April 2019, Fine called Paul Halpern, a Jewish constituent of his, a "Judenrat" for supporting an event that discussed the Israeli-Palestinian situation...
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school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council"), which had been established during the occupation. Soros...
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the Kurc family is painfully tested by his role in the Jewish Police or Judenrat Marina Bye as Rahel, a member of the Jewish Resistance in Poland The series...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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from the Judenrat and the demands were much crueler. Death was the punishment for the slightest indication of noncompliance by the Judenrat. Sometimes...
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Following the German invasion of Hungary, he served as president of the Judenrat in Békéscsaba. Ernő Prónai was born in Budapest in 1885, as the son of...
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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...
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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...
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extermination camps and other killing sites; the role of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) in choosing those to be deported has attracted significant controversy...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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