Auxiliary Jewish Police Force in the Lodz Ghetto
An auxiliary Jewish police force kept order in the Lodz Ghetto and was was used by the Germans to organize the selection of people for deportation.
During the last few months of 1941 the Lodz Ghetto in Poland had received some 40,000 Jews who had been deported from Germany. Now, in the middle of January 1942, deportations out from the ghetto began. The Germans never made clear why people were being deported – and they never denied the rumours that sprang up about people being sent to work on farms or factories elsewhere in Poland.