Editing Judenrat (section)

==Ghettos==
[[File:Jewish Police Węgrów.jpg|thumb|Jewish police in the [[Węgrów Ghetto]], Poland]]
''Judenräte'' were responsible for the internal administration of ghettos, standing between the Nazi occupiers and their Jewish communities. In general, the ''Judenräte'' represented the elite from their Jewish communities. Often, a ''Judenrat'' had a group for internal security and control, a [[Jewish Ghetto Police]] (German: Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei or Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst). They also attempted to manage the government services normally found in a city, such as those named above.  However, the Germans requiring them to deliver community members for forced labor or deportation to [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]], placed them in the position of cooperating with the German occupiers. To resist such orders was to risk [[summary execution]], or quick replacement and inclusion in the next concentration-camp shipment.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

In a number of cases, such as the [[Minsk ghetto]] and the [[Lakhva Ghetto|Łachwa ghetto]], ''Judenräte'' cooperated with the [[resistance movement]]. In other cases, ''Judenräte'' cooperated with the Germans (although, as discussed above, the extent of this collaboration remains debated).