Given name: Marian Wilhelm Family name: Haendel (11)

(1)

Before the war he was a travelling salesman of cinema advertisements. In autumn 1940, he was in charge of the militia guarding newly built ghetto walls. He was later deputy chief of the Jewish Police (Order Service).

(2)

Jewish Police inspector in the ghetto, liaised between the occupation authorities and the Jewish Community. Worked for the Gestapo.

(3)

Szerynski's deputy. Escaped from the ghetto just before its destruction. The Schmidts met him in Caracas, he used a fake surname "Klinowski." Somebody informed about him and his past. As a result, the Jewish community sued him for his collaboration with the Germans. Haendel escaped leaving his wife and son.

(4)

The commander of the Jewish police - until July 1941.

(5)

Before the war, he worked in the 'film industry.' After German invasion, he became a group commander in the Judenrat - he led groups of workers to labour. He established contacts with the Germans, also by means of bribery, he worked his way up. From 1940 - deputy chief of the Jewish Police (Order Service).

(6)

The deputy of the Jewish Police chief.

(7)

Since 1940 were the deputy of the commissioner of the ghetto police.

(8)

He was said to come from Lvov. Before the war, he worked for Polish Blue Police and became officer in 1935. Expelled, worked in the film industry. The owner of the only car in the ghetto (which was in fact police car). Deputy superintendent of the Jewish Police. Messenger between the Judenrat and Gestapo. Dictator, decided about personnel moves in the Judenrat. On the side, he did 'interventions' for which he was dearly paid.

(9)

Szerynski's deputy, a Judenrat clerk, in charge of special tasks, in July 1942 he escaped from the ghetto.

(10)

In charge of hundred-people branch of the Judenrat police, superintendent of the Jewish Police. In 1940, a letter accusing him of crimes came, but he was not dismissed. He fought for influence and posts for his protégés from the former Order Service, which deprived him of authority in the Judenrat. He was responsible for the contacts with German authorities and for confirming the Order Service's statute. Szerynski suspects him of collaboration with Gestapo and relieved him from his responsibilities. In 1941, his protégés received bribes from the cemetery smuggle. In 1942, when the deportation started, he disappeared from the ghetto.

(11)

An inspector, favoured by the Gestapo and the Kriminalpolizei, a rogue, comes from Lvov, Wentland was his right-hand man.

(7)

This person was not confirmed by Sakowska or Gutman.

(8)

probably April 1941

(10)

Obedient to the Germans like a dog.

(1)

Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part I

(2)

Czerniaków, Adam Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

(3)

Schmidt, Cudem przeżyliśmy czas zagłady (We Miraculously Survived the Holocaust)

(4, 8)

Documents from the State Archive of New Records regarding
the Warsaw Ghetto

(6)

"Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of
Emanuel Ringelblum. Emanuel Ringelblum work was edited and translated into English by Jacob
Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958
under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel
Ringelblum"

(7)

Berg, Mary Dziennik z getta warszawskiego (Warsaw Ghetto Diary)

(9)

Maslanko, Mojzesz, Testimony 301-4184.

(10)

Adler, Stanislaw

(1) 502, s. 2, 18, (2) 108, (3) s. 32, (4) [s., 245,, AAN-27,, s.18], (5) , cz2 str. 6, 16, 25, 75-77, 82, 83, (6) [253,263], (7) [s.44], (8) [s., 259,, AAN-27,, s.2], (11) 55,117