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Judenrat

Judenrat, German for "Jewish council", were administrative bodies the Nazis required Jews to form in each ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland. These bodies where responsible for local government in the ghetto, and stood between the Nazis and the ghetto population. They were generally composed of leaders of the Jewish community. They were forced by the Nazis to provide Jews for use as slave labour, and to assist in the deportation of Jews to extermination camps during the Holocaust.



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