The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: ‘Gross Aktion’: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto’s Great Deportation 80 Year Later

The Ghetto Fighters’ House  Talking Memory Series presents:

Grossaktion Warsaw:  80 Years Later

Join us for the second program on Sunday, August 21^st

The Road to the Umschlagplatz: The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto

Guest Speakers:    

 Dr. Katarzyna Person

Jewish Historical Institute

The Ghetto Police: Inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto and their Perception of the Jewish Order Servic

Noam Leibman
Moreshet – The Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center

“We, the Jewish policemen, do not see any guilt in our behavior“: The Great Deportation as Reflected in the Memoirs of Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Police Officer

 The second program in this series deals with the Jewish police in the Warsaw ghetto. In her presentation, Dr. Katarzyna Person will look at the Jewish Order Service, commonly known as the Jewish Police, and its duties in the Warsaw ghetto. She will show the evolving perception of the Jewish Police among ghetto inhabitants and the narrative regarding its actions in the early period of the ghetto existence, during the Gross Aktion and in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Noam Leibman will focus on the self-narration of Jewish Service officer Stanisław Gombiński regarding the Great Deportation of the Warsaw ghetto. Despite the diverse number of studies about Jewish police and the well-known memories that have been written, their personal voices are primarily used to explain various situations and interactions rather than to understand their perspectives.

2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel

This program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, the Rabin Chair Forum, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center, the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv, the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.