Henryk Makower about Jewish Police

The Second World War - Testimonies

Henryk Makower

- a Polish doctor and researcher of Jewish origin - wrote in his memoirs ("Pamiętnik z ghetto Warszawskiego October 1940 - January 1943") about the activities of the Ordnungsdienst - the Jewish Order Service, commonly known as the Jewish police, wrote:

I was told about various scenes during the blockades of houses. Some of the 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 behaved scandalously, not even accepting good credentials. As a result, people were going to the Umschlag who were completely sure that the certificate would protect them, and, not knowing what awaited them, they turned themselves over to their fellow countrymen. In other cases, people were fired for bribes, and bribery was widespread (...). The blockades unleashed a whole lot of villainy and rascality. The reluctants were beaten with clubs, no worse than the Germans. This was accompanied by the robbery of abandoned flats under some pretext, e.g. not to leave things to the Germans. Many "decent" senior officials of the SP made a fortune on various such practices. It was such a massive phenomenon that even the so-called decent people boasted - "I made some money on this action" - or - "my husband is not fit for this day, he earned nothing on the action."

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