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Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation

Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation

Person, Katarzyna
Nowak-Soliński, Zygmunt

Hardcover

General World HistoryHolocaustWorld War II

Publisher Price: $32.95

ISBN10: 1501754076
ISBN13: 9781501754074
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.70 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service.

Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions.

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