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Judenrat

Krystyna and Pawel Chiger (courtesy: Doron Keren)
April 14, 2026, 3:58 pm
How the sewers under Nazi-occupied Ukraine gave rise to unexpected Holocaust heroes
Ignacy Chiger died half a century ago, but his newly published war memoir raises complicated questions of Judenrat’s Jewish communal responsibility versus allegations of complicity
By Matt Lebovic
Jewish police detaining a former kapo who was recognized by former concentration camp inmates in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp, Germany, ca. 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alice Lev)
October 29, 2022, 2:06 pm
Post-Holocaust Jewish ‘honor courts’ channeled some survivors’ desire for revenge
Online event describes how after WWII, Jewish communities put hundreds of survivors on trial for alleged ‘moral transgressions’ during the genocide to stave off vigilante justice
By Matt Lebovic
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross’s haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council’s infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski — who thought himself a Jewish ‘savior’
By Matt Lebovic
David Friedman (left), the choice of President-elect Donald Trump to serve as ambassador to Israel, and German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Bradley C Bower/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images/JTA; Public domain)
December 20, 2016, 3:14 pm
On David Friedman, the ‘kapo’ smear, and Jewish honor
As Trump’s pick for ambassador has demonstrated, some 60 years after the Jewish ‘collaborator’ trials in Israel, the term still packs a venomous punch
By Matt Lebovic
Samuel Kassow with his daughter Serena Kassow on the set of 'Who Will Write Our History?' in Poland, based on Samuel Kassow's book about the 'Oneg Shabbat' archive, May 2016. (Courtesy)
August 5, 2016, 6:06 am
Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood
New film based on two recovered document troves — out of three buried during the Holocaust — depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime
By Matt Lebovic
Dutch Israeli holocaust survivor Mirjam Bolle is seen in her house in Jerusalem, January 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
January 26, 2016, 5:34 pm
Stashed love letters shed light on divisive Holocaust legacy
Mirjam Bolle’s memoir of forgotten WWII-era messages reveals dark bureaucracy of the Dutch Judenrat
By Aron Heller
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