Given name: Unknown Family name: Szmerling

  • YES
  • Male
  • Szmerling
  • Officer of the Jewish Police. He was known for his brutal behavior. Constable in the Umschlagplatz during the First Action. In the first week of August 1942 when children from orphanage at Twarda Street No. 27 were released from the Umschlagplatz (with SS-officer's permission) he did not allow other children to join the released group (J. Barski tried to do this).

  • Jewish police
  • Barski, Jozef; Przezycia i wspomnienia z lat okupacji (Experiences and Memoirs of the Occupation)

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