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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1998 12(1):49-65; doi:10.1093/hgs/12.1.49
© 1998 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Justice System and Courts of Law in the Ghettos of Lithuania

Dina Porat

Tel Aviv University

The legal systems established in the three main Jewish ghettos in Lithuania during World War II demonstrate a prevalent wish to maintain a communal life based on laws, values, and moral restraint. The new systems had to function in the face of a conqueror who had turned human values upside down, and in the context of a surrounding population who had largely abandoned or brutalized their former neighbors. These new legal systems were created by former jurists who configured regulations suited to the realities of ghetto life. The attitude of the population was directly related to the degree of the courts' and judges' independence from the ghetto police and formal leadership: the more independent the court, the more it was respected.


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