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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

July 1942, a Roll-Call of Six Jewish Policemen in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

The Jewish police force in the Warsaw ghetto numbered approximately 2,000. From 1941, they were under orders to supply man-power for forced labor to the German authorities.   When the mass deportations of the Jews of Warsaw to the Treblinka death camp began on 22 July 1942, the Jewish police units were ordered to participate in rounding up the Jews for deportation. As time went on, the Jewish policemen understood that they were merely pawns in the hands of the Germans, and that their own fate was not assured.  Many deserted and joined ghetto workshops or hid.  Most of the Jewish policemen and their families were eventually deported to Treblinka and murdered.