A Judenrat was an administrative body, established in any zone of German-occupied Europe during World War II, purporting to represent the Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Ge
The building of the Jewish Council in Warsaw, burned during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Applying for identification and work permits from Kraków Ghetto Jewish Council
Stamp of the Judenrat of Drohobych, Ukraine: almost all of the 15,000 pre-war Jewish population were murdered.
Jewish police in the Węgrów Ghetto, Poland
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. A Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Arendt report
Judenrat
…disagreement. This controversial point i.e her criticism of the alleged role of Jewish authorities in the Holocaust is raised by Hannah Arendt in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. In her writings, Arendt expressed her objections to the prosecution's refusal to address the cooperation of the leaders of the Judenräte with the…
Cover of the first edition