Ordnungsdienst

  • Order Service
  • Jewish Police
Identifier
411
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

The Ordnungsdienst was established on the eve of the creation of the ghetto with a prewar inspector of State Police, Colonel Józef Szerynski, as its commander. The Ordnungsdienst was thus a police force within the ghetto. These Jews assisted the Nazis in rounding up other Jews for selections and deportations to death and concentration camps. Their activities caused great enmity among ghetto residents.

Places

  • Founded and active in Poland

Sources

  • Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, geography, and terminology / E.J. Epstein, P. Rosen. – Westport, 1997. – p. 146 The Warsaw ghetto : a guide to the perished city / B. Engelking, J. Leociak. – New Haven, 2009. – p. 838