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Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. In Warsaw, rather than aid in the roundup of Jews, Jewish council chairman Adam Czerniakow committed suicide on July 22, , the day deportations began. They would come in the morning and told the Jewish council to deliver men or men. If the Jewish council wasn't able to deliver through their own police, they started indiscriminately to go from house to house, beat, shoot Other Jewish council officials advocated compliance, believing that cooperation would ensure the survival of at least a portion of the population.

In Lodz , Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who tried in vain to persuade the Nazis to reduce the number of Jewish deportees, urged ghetto residents to report for deportation as ordered. Rumkowski also adopted a policy of "rescue through labor," believing that if the Germans could exploit Jewish labor, deportation might be averted.

Jewish council members held varied views on resistance. In Sosnowiec, Moshe Merin denounced the underground, believing that armed resistance would doom the entire ghetto. In Vilna , Jewish council chairman Jacob Gens decided to hand over underground leader Yitzhak Wittenberg, claiming that if the council did not turn Wittenberg in the Nazis would liquidate the ghetto. Jewish council opposition to resistance often prompted resentment within the underground, which sometimes accused the Jewish councils of collaboration with the Nazis in Warsaw , the underground attacked the Jewish police.

Some Jewish council chairmen, such as Efraim Barasz in Bialystok , believed that resistance should be implemented only as a last resort—when a ghetto was about to be liquidated. In Kovno , Elchanan Elkes actively assisted the underground. In Lachva and Tuchin, Jewish council members participated in uprisings.

In Diatlovo, Jewish council members organized partisans.