Jewish Councils and Jewish Ghetto Police in Eastern Europe

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Katarzyna Person

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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This chapter describes the “choiceless choices” of the leaders as circumstances changed over time and as a result of Nazi strategies of annihilation. Similarly, the chapter addresses the motivations and strategies of the Jewish police and its role at different stages of the “Final Solution” and how these decisions affected Jews according to gender, age, country of origin, and class.

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deportation Warsaw Ghetto Poland SS forced labor mass shooting Jewish police Hans Frank Adam Czerniaków Barbarossa Minsk Vilna (Vilnius)food medical care education

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Type: Chapter
Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 101 - 116

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.009 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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