Warsaw Ghetto police : the Jewish Order Service during the Nazi occupation / Katarzyna Person, translated by Zygmunt Nowak-Soliński.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Person, Katarzyna, author.

Contributor:

Nowak-Soliński, Zygmunt, translator.

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst--History.

Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.

Jews.

Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland).

Poland--Warsaw.

Poland--Warsaw--Getto warszawskie.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Focuses on the history of the Jewish Order Service (known as the Jewish Police) in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 and its perception among ghetto inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Establishment of the Jewish Order Service

Organization and the objectives of the Service

Violence and corruption in the exercise of daily duties

Police in the eyes of the ghetto population: interpretation of violence

Police officers' voices

Response to violence: regulation of the activity of the Jewish Order Service

Spring

Umschlagplatz

After resettlement

The courts.

Notes:

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Translated from the Polish.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Person, Katarzyna Warsaw Ghetto police.

ISBN:

9781501754074

1501754076

OCLC:

1155487861