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Hunting down Emanuel Ringelblum. The Participation of the Polish Kriminalpolizei in the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question
Jan Grabowski
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl BioJan Grabowski, professor of history at the University of Ottawa, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His publications include Judenjagd. Polowanie na Żydów 1942–1945. Studium dziejów pewnego powiatu (2011); 2013 saw the publication of the extended English edition of this book – Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland, while its Hebrew translation was published by Yad Vashem in 2016; editor of many collective volumes, for instance, Klucze i kasa. O mieniu żydowskim w Polsce pod okupacją niemiecką i we wczesnych latach powojennych 1939–1950 (2014, together with Dariusz Libionka) as well as critical editions of sources, for instance, Szraga Fajwel Bielawski, Ostatni Żyd z Węgrowa. Wspomnienia ocalałego z Zagłady w Polsce (2015), and „Szczęście posiadać dom pod ziemią”. Losy kobiet ocalałych z Zagłady w okolicach Dąbrowy Tarnowskiej (2016).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6916-9379
University of Ottawa
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2017), pages: 11-41
Publication date: 2017-12-06
Abstract
During the occupation, the Germans re-organised the Polish police forces. The regular police, henceforth known as ‘blue police’, resumed its duties under the supervision of the German Order Police [Orpo – Ordnungspolizei], while the secret police, now called Polish Criminal Police, was incorporated into the German Kriminalpolizei, or Kripo. Although there have been no historical studies of the Polish Kripo, it seems that this organisation played an essential role in tracking down and killing the Jews in hiding. This article, which largely draws on previously unknown archival material, focuses on the Warsaw section of the Polish Criminal Police. More specifically, it discusses the creation and the role of several specialised units, created for the sole reason of hunting down the Jews in hiding, in Warsaw, during the 1943–1944 period. The units have been responsible, among others, for the detection and arrest of Emanuel Ringelblum, the founder of “Oneg Shabbat”, the underground archive of the Warsaw ghetto.
Keywords
Jews, Holocaust, hiding, Polish Police, Poland, Emanuel Ringelblum
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