Ordnungsdienst
- Order Service
- Jewish Police
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