Warsaw, Aryan Side

Stanislaw Adler

1943

Where shall I start? My thoughts are in turmoil. There is an overpowering desire burning in me to put in writing as speedily as possible all that has happened to us in these years of war, especially that which I, myself, have been witness to in the last six months. Even now, I am terrified that the dangers which threaten me from all sides might…

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Stanislaw Adler

d. 1946

Stanislaw Adler was a lawyer and officer with the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst, the Jewish police force in the Warsaw ghetto, as well as director of the housing office. His detailed account of the events leading up to the resettlement and liquidation of the largest Jewish community in Poland provides an inside view of the conditions that allowed for the creation and maintenance of the ghetto from 1940 to 1943. Adler committed suicide in 1946, after the Kielce pogrom.

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