Dawid Sternfeld

The Second World War - Criminals - Jewish getto - Poland - Warsaw
Gestapo - Group 13 - Jewish collaborators

Dawid Sternfeld, from Łódź, was a high-ranking member of the Group 13 and Abraham Gancwajch's trusted man. Due to his appearance, he could have passed for a boxer, laborer or a bandit. He was undoubtedly a Gestapo(german: Geheime Staatspolizei) The Secret State Police established in the Third Reich, which ruthlessly fought against all forms of resistance in the occupied territories. Identified with the most terrible German crimes against Poles, and after 1942 also against Jews. Disbanded with the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. Recognized as a criminal organization by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. man, which did not save him from being executed by the Germans, when he was no longer useful to them.

Merchant. Before the war, a scammer known in Łódź. The receivership of the houses. Jew. In the ghetto, a Gestapo officer. He is nicknamed "Tadek". It has a warehouse and manufacture in the Aryan quarter under the Aryan leadership. He formed a special platoon of the SP, with which he went to the robbery. It works under the guise of defending the Jews by extorting money from them. In conflicts with the PP, he called for the Gestapo. Thanks to contacts with the Gestapo, he was in the 13th for so long, even though Gancwajch tried to get rid of him. He founded a Trade-Manufacture House together with collaborators Hilel Bergman, R. Szpunt, J. Wroński, R, Silberberg, Z. Szeps, R. Amsterdam. Tall, stooped dark haired man, thick brow, thickly hewn face.
—Documents from the Archives of New Files regarding the Warsaw ghetto

Adam Czerniakov in his diary of the Warsaw ghetto he noted that in 1942 Sternfeld "escaped from the ghetto, thus avoiding being shot by the Germans at night of 23/24.05.42".

Stanisław AdlerBarrister, Jewish Police (Order Service) officer. Resigned from his post, when the Germans started the deportation, his decision was accepted by the the Judenrat - he then became head of the Housing Office. In 1942 he lived in the area of big ghetto. He was privileged to move in-between the ghettos. He is a supporter of armed resistance. Escapes from the ghetto, hides in Saska Kepa, later in Anin. In July 1946 he becomes a honorary member of the law faculty in Warsaw University. After the Kielce pogrom he commits suicide. Autor of "In the Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1943 An Account of a Witness. The Memoirs of Stanisław Adler". wrote about him:

He heads the officers of the Office to Fight Usury. He is a shmaltsovnik [a person who blackmails Jews who were in hiding] - he lives on the Aryan side, does not wear an armband with a [David] star and deals with searching for Jews hiding on the Aryan side and handing them over to the Germans. Gestapo officer, killed by the Germans. It turned out that he worked for both sides.

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