'Jewish council') was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported to represent a Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Germans required Jews to form Judenräte across the occupied territories at local and sometimes national levels. [1]

During World War II, the Germans established Jewish councils (Judenraete) in the ghettos. These Jewish administrations were required to ensure that Nazi orders and regulations were implemented. Jewish council members also sought to provide basic community services for ghettoized Jewish populations.

Judenräte, Jewish councils established in German-occupied Poland and eastern Europe during World War II to implement German policies and maintain order in the ghettos to which the Nazis confined the country’s Jewish population.

JUDENRAT (Ger. for "Jewish Council"), a body heading a Jewish community, appointed by the German occupying authorities during World War II, which was responsible for the enforcement of Nazi orders affecting the Jews and for the administration of the affairs of the Jewish community.

As ghetto life settled into a "routine," the Judenrat took on the functions of local government, providing police and fire protection, postal services, sanitation, transportation, food and fuel distribution, and housing, for example.

This representation of the Jews, known as the Judenrat, will consist of 12 Jews in communities with up to 10,000 inhabitants, and in communities with more than 10,000 inhabitants, of 24 Jews, drawn from the locally resident population. The Judenrat will be elected by the Jews of …

The Judenrat (German: "Jewish Council") was an administrative body established by Nazi Germany during World War II to control Jewish communities throughout occupied Europe, mainly in the Nazi ghettos. The Germans required Jews to establish a Judenrat in every community in the occupied territories.

Appointed by the Germans during World War II, a Judenrat (pl., Judenräte) was a Jewish council; an Ältestenrat (pl., Ältestenräte) was a council of elders.

Jan 1, 1996 · The German authorities established in each ghetto a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, to maintain minimal living standards. The Judenrat was required to carry out Nazi directives against other Jews,...

role in the destruction of European Jewry. In this letter, the words Aeltestenrat. (council of elders) and Judenrat (Jewish council) are used interchangeably. It directs that in each Jewish community an Aeltestenrat should be established. Composed of twenty-four male Jews, preferably influential personalities and. ghettos.