Jewish Councils (Judenraete)

A meeting of the Warsaw Jewish council.

Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Jewish council chairman ...

Jewish council chairman Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski ...

Jews in the Lodz ghetto line up outside the labor ...

Members of the Lvov Jewish council are hanged by ...

Employees of the Jewish council in the Kovno ...

A meeting of the Kovno ghetto Jewish council.

Scene photographed by George Kadish: Jewish ...

Jacob Edelstein, chairman of the Jewish council in ...

Jewish children in an orphanage operated by the ...

Scene photographed by George Kadish: Jewish prisoners behind a barred window in the Kovno ghetto jail. The Jewish council administered its own jail in the ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, 1943.

— United States Holocaust Memorial Museum