Judenrat
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 92 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5109-5766-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Judenrate (singular Judenrat; German for "Jewish council") were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland, and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union It is the overall term for the enforcement bodies established by the Nazi occupiers to manage Jewish communities in German-occupied areas, although the Nazis established the name Altestenrat, in Lodz, (see Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski) and possibly elsewhere. While the history of the term Judenrat itself is unclear, Jewish communities themselves had established councils for self-government as far back as the Medieval Era. While the Hebrew term of "Kahal" or "Kehillah" was used by the Jewish community, German authorities tended to generally use the term Judenrate. The structure and missions of the Judenrate under the Nazi regime varied widely, often depending upon whether meant for a single...