Bernard Goldstein about Jewish Police

The Second World War - Testimonies

Bernard Goldstein (1889–1959), sometimes called "Comrade Bernard", was a Jewish Polish socialist, he was active in the Warsaw Ghetto during the II Wolrd War, helping smuggle in arms in preparation for the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After Poland's liberation from German occupation, he emigrated to the United States and wrote his autobiography, Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto (originally titled The Stars Bear Witness), where he refered to the jewish police in words:

With a sense of pain and disgust I remember the Jewish police, this shame for half a million miserable Jews in the Warsaw ghetto (...). The Jewish police, led by people from the SS and military policemen, fell into the ghetto like a bunch of wild animals. Each day, to save his own skin, each Jewish policeman would bring seven people to be sacrificed on the altar of extermination. One brought with him whoever he could capture - friends, relatives, even members of the closest family. They were policemen who offered their own elderly parents with the excuse that they would die soon anyway.

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