The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

The anonymous policemen who composed this secret history were members of a Jewish police force that served in the Kovno ghetto from August 1941 until the Nazis murdered the leadership of the force in March 1944.Samuel Schalkowsky, a survivor of the Kovno ghetto, is a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Samuel D. Kassow is Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and author of Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (IUP, 2007).

Kassow places this powerful work within the context of the history of the Kovno Jewish community and its experience and fate at the hands of the Nazis.

Preface / Samuel SchalkowskyAcknowledgmentsInside the Kovno Ghetto / Samuel D. KassowHistory of the Viliampole [Kovno] Jewish Ghetto Police1. Introduction2. The Prehistory of the Kovno Ghetto3. The Gruesome Period from the Beginning of the Ghetto to the Great Action4. Ghetto Situation After the Great Action (The survivor must live...)5. The Elder Council, the Ghetto Institutions, the Police and the Ghetto Population: Mutual Interrelationships6. Development of the Administrative Apparatus and of the Police after the Action7. The Ghetto Guard and the Jewish Police8. The Ghetto during the Time of the NSKK, Wiedmann and Hermann (Spring and Summer 1942)9. The Police in the Spring and Summer of 1942 (the Caspi Period)10. The Ghetto in the Times of Koeppen, Miller and the Vienna Protective Police (Schutz Polizei)11. The Police in the Last Quarter of 1942Appendix: Evolution of the ManuscriptBibliographyIndex