Anatol Chari

The Second World War - Criminals - Jewish getto - Lodz - Poland

Anatol Chari, actually Anatol Chary was born in Łódź in 1923 as the son of a Jewish merchant and social activist in Łódź – Piotr Chara. He was a Jewish collaborator of the Third Reich, author of the autobiographical publication “Subhuman: memories of a member of the SonderkommandoSonderkommando - units created to perform special tasks, for example police and military units performing extermination tasks in relation to the jewish community, to service gas chambers and crematoria, created on the initiative of the Germans or the jewish administrations themselves in ghettos, which dealt with transporting their brothers to their extermination destinations, in return i.a. for protecting their loved ones and were especially hated by other Jews.”. After the war, he finally settled in the USA, in California, where he became a dentist-periodontologist.

His father’s extensive relations with the Jewish community in Łódź and his protection with Chaim Rumkowski enabled him to obtain a position in the Jewish administration of the ghetto after its closure on April 30, 1940.

He became a member of the Jewish order policeGerman: Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst, literally Jewish Order Service, customarily Jewish police - during World War II, they ware partially subordinate to the Judenrat, collaborating with Nazi Germany, Jewish Police units operated inside ghettos, labor camps and concentration camps. The police dealt with requisitions, round-ups of other Jews, escorting displaced people and deportation actions. (Sonderkommando), established as part of the Jewish self-government. After the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, he was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau(German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers and crematories; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of extermination of Poles and the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question. extermination camp, and then transported successively to the Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen camps. Liberated by British troops, he stayed in West Germany until 1951, where he completed his studies. Then he emigrated to the United States.

Members of the Lodz ghetto police. Front row, center is Leon Rozenblat, chief of the Lodz ghetto police. Left of him is Abram Josef (Alfred) Chimowicz. Anatol Chari is on the right of Rozenblat.

As a policeman in the ghetto, Anatol Chari worked on escorting food supplies, security of food warehouses, controlling bakery workers, and patrols aimed at confiscating food from residents. This kind of work guaranteed him a special status, authority and power; access to special shops, better food cards, copious portions of food, protection against deportation (until the final liquidation of the ghetto), access to unofficial food supply channels. Like other policemen, he was catching and delivering Jews to the Germans. He did not even hesitate to put his fiancée to the transportation to a death camp.. He also describes his participation in frauds related to the circulation of scarce food in the ghetto, tolerated or even organized by members of the Sonderkommando or extorting sexual services for food.

As one of the few prisoners, he mentioned “economic prostitution” in the ghetto and about physical love as a form of mental escape from reality.

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