Ignacy Pacanewicz

The Second World War - Criminals - Cracow - Krakow ghetto - Poland
Jewish collaborators - Jewish Ghetto Police - Security Service SD

Ignacy Pacanewicz (or Pacanower), brother of Michał Panacewicz. Both were Jewish 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. officers in the Krakow ghetto. Together, they made a fortune thanks to bribes and denouncing Jews to the 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.. Their fate is unknown. They had a particularly bad opinion in the Krakow ghetto. Aleksander Bieberstein wrote: “OD-men enjoyed abundance. In particular, the managers made money with bribes of large estates (...) [Pacanewicz Brothers - editor's note ed.] greedy and corrupt, they made their fortune in a dishonorable way”.

The brothers worked in the department of civil affairs (Zivilabteilung), which was probably organized by Spira at the behest of the Gestapo . Members of this department wore different uniforms. They wore jackets and ties and badges that stated "Ordnungdienst ".

They were specialists in bribes for release from transport during the deportation on June 4 and 8, 1942 from the Krakow ghetto. For arranging the stamp and the so-called blue card, they took bribes from whomever they could. Of course, paying a bribe did not always get the job done. However, no one applied for a refund, as no one wanted to expose themselves to the police who could take their revenge at the earliest opportunity.

Along with his brother, he was shot in December 1943, in PłaszówPłaszów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpwaʂuf]) or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland. Most of the prisoners were Polish Jews. Many prisoners died because of executions, forced labor, and the poor conditions in the camp. The camp was evacuated in January 1945, before the Red Army's liberation of the area on 20 January. camp, when his services were not needed anymore by Germans.

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