Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation (Part Two)
New Holocaust Research from Poland: Groundbreaking Perspectives (Series)
Part Two: Warsaw Ghetto Police - The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation
Featuring Katarzyna Person, Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
Since the creation of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw almost 20 years ago, the scholarship of Barbara Engelking, Jan Grabowski, Alina Skibińska, and others has revolutionized our knowledge of Polish-Jewish relations during and after the Holocaust. Standing on their shoulders, a new generation of Polish scholars has emerged despite the challenging political climate of recent years. Three of them - Łukasz Krzyżanowski, Katarzyna Person, and Joanna Śliwa - will be our guests, for a series of conversations about their trailblazing work on survivors in postwar Radom, the ghetto policemen in Warsaw, and Jewish childhood in German-occupied Kraków.
Katarzyna Person (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland) will explore the Jewish Order Service, commonly known as the Jewish Police, and its role in the daily life of the Warsaw ghetto. I will show how perception of the Jewish Police and the narrative regarding its actions changed during the existence of the ghetto and in the aftermath of the Holocaust.