Given name: I Family name: Erlich (14)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) YES
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) Male
  • (1) I , (5) Josef , (6) Józef , (8) Józef , (10) Józef , (12) Józef
  • (1) Erlich , (2) Erlich , (3) Erlich , (4) Erlich , (5) Erlich , (6) Ehrlich , (7) Erlich , (8) Erlich , (9) Erlich , (10) Erlich , (11) Ehrlich , (12) Ehrlich , (13) Erlich , (14) Ehrlich
  • (1) Josł Kapota, (2) Josełe-Kapota, (5) Josełe Kapota
  • (8) 1901
  • (6) 1943
  • (13) Warszawa
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) No information
  • (1)

    Shot in Pawiak; a colourful personality.

    (2)

    in the leadership of the deportation action, a shady-looking guy, new dignitary, he made it during the action; a little clumsy character, a face of plunderer and procurer - he has 3 stars

    (3)

    a Gestapo functionary, through whom it was possible to bribe Germans. Through him, Mrs. Wattenberg wanted to fix enrolling her whole family on the list of American citizens, who were supposed to leave the ghetto.

    (4)

    a confidant Hoehman and the Lublin group. A Jewish Police officer. By Hoehman's order he became commandant of the Jewish Police (the First Action). At the end of August 1942 he disappeared from the ghetto horizon (after Hoehman had left for the front). There were rumours that he was shot in the Jewish cementary.

    (5)

    'Josele Kapota', a Gestapo agent, Jewish police officer; arrested; head of the prison (?); before the war a wheeler-dealer, extorted ransom, ca. 1936 - money counterfeit (probably he was in Bereza); after the outbreak of the war - arrested by the criminal police - to Auschwitz; released soon afterwards (he committed himself to something); he went to the countryside - 3 or 4 counterfeit money companies - he denounced - they say he is a man of a bad character, despotic, ambitious; his subordinates are afraid of him

    (6)

    He was an agent of the German criminal police. Killed by the Germans in 1943

    (7)

    convicted by a court before the war, at the end of 1940 a grey eminence in Jewish Police, reportedly he kept in touch with the German authorities

    (8)

    Residing at Nowolipki Street No. 24, flat 46; has a certificate of a Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) employee. A Gestapo agent - February 1941, August 1941

    (9)

    Gestapo collaborator

    (10)

    He couldn't read or write. A Jewish Police officer; collaborated with the Germans, blackmailed people in the ghetto.

    (11)

    a kapo and Gestapo agent

    (12)

    A collaborator. He loyally served the Germans. In the summer of 1941 he tried to get the license to run cinemas in the ghetto and bringing lemons and tobacco products into the ghetto. He supported a 12-person family (as he writes in the applications)

    (13)

    a prewar nickname 'Josel Kapote', he lives in Nolowipki Street. For 3,500 zlotys he can help Adler's uncle to get out of trouble with the Gestapo. He is appointed a middleman between the Gestapo and the Jewish Police and he constantly goes up in society. His number was converted from Roman to Arabic numerals. During the deportation he gets the rank of the deputy chief of police from the Germans, but a few days later he gets beaten to death by them.

    (14)

    a collaborator

  • (2)

    other testimonies: Iop2YV033/2010

    (3)

    It cannot be established if this is Jozef Ehrlich - 'Kapota'

    (13)

    Sad expression on his face.

  • (2)

    Mirka Pizyc

    (3)

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

    (4)

    name unknown

    (5)

    Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s 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

    (6)

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

    (7)

    Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part I

    (8)

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

    (9)

    Elper, Samuel, testimony 301-2277

    (11)

    Tyszka, Leon; Sukcesy i kleski jednego zycia (Successes and Failures of One Life)

    (12)

    Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part II

    (13)

    Adler, Stanislaw, <> , <>

  • (1) 117,122-3,149, (3) [s., 154], (4) [s., 127-129,, 131], (5) [256,, 264,331,, 376], (6) 275, (7) 100,str 4, (8) [s., 126,, 127,, 128], (10) 48, 56, (11) ,55, (12) 155, s.1-3, (14) 96