Judenrat

thumb|Judenrat in the town of Szydłowiec in [[occupied Poland, where the Jewish population was in the majority before the Holocaust]]

A Judenrat (, ; ) was an administrative body, established in any zone of German-occupied Europe during World War II, purporting to represent the Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Germans required Jews to form Judenräte within occupied territories at local and sometimes national levels.