The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police

The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police / by anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police ; translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky ; Introduction by Samuel D. Kassow.

"As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers, the Kovno Jewish ghetto police walked a fine line between helping Jews survive and meeting Nazi orders. In 1942 and 1943 some of its members secretly composed this hi...

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Other Authors: Schalkowsky, Samuel (Editor, Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., [2014]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Jews > Persecutions > Lithuania > Kaunas.
Jews > Lithuania > Kaunas > History > 20th century.
Jewish police officers > Lithuania > Kaunas > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Lithuania > Kaunas.
History.
Electronic books.
history (discipline)
e-books.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Ethnic relations
Jewish police officers
Jews
Jews > Persecutions
Kaunas (Lithuania) > Ethnic relations.
Lithuania > History > German occupation, 1941-1944.
Lithuania
Lithuania > Kaunas
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: First Weeks / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Transfer to the Ghetto / Samuel D. Kassow
  • First Days; Establishment of the Jewish Ghetto Police / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Personal Effects and Gold "Actions" / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Development and Expansion of the Police Force / Samuel D. Kassow
  • "Jordan Certificates" and the "Rehearsal Action" / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Airfield and City Work Brigades / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Actions: In the "Box" (September 26, 1941) and in the "Small Ghetto" (October 4, 1941) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Great Action / Samuel D. Kassow
  • "Episode" of the German Jews / Samuel D. Kassow
  • After the Action: Moods and Rumors; Camp or Ghetto / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Labor Quota / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Material Conditions / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Events in the Ghetto after the Great Action / Samuel D. Kassow
  • New Ghetto Guard (NSKK) Located inside the Ghetto / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Gate and the Gate Guard / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Ghetto Guard and the Police Intermediary (Relations with Germans and Lithuanians) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Jordan's Last Actions (The Riga Action and the Book Action) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Departure of Jordan and Kaminski / Samuel D. Kassow
  • New Masters, New Winds (Wiedmann, Hermann-German Labor Office) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Evacuation of "Brazilke" / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Workers for Palemon / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Labor Quota / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Economic Conditions; Gardens / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Vilna Letter Episode / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Ghetto Commissions / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Appearance of Caspi / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Caspi Personality / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Police Reforms and Reorganizations; New Management / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Caspi's Departure / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Economy without Money / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Days of Awe, Again Palemon / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Vienozinskio Area Cleared Again / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Riga a Second Time / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Meck Episode / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Assaults / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Chanukah and the New Year-Beginning of the Ghetto Bright Period (the Time of Miller) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • New Units (Gate and Detention-House Guards; Jail and Workshop Guards) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Expansion of the Administrative Work of the Police (Penal Department, Criminal Department, "Passportization," Administrative Penalties) / Samuel D. Kassow
  • Police as a Social Organization (the Swearing-in Ceremony, Police Concerts) / Samuel D. Kassow.

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