Łódź Ghetto
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The Łódź Ghetto, or Litzmannstadt Ghetto, was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of
Jewish children inside the Łódź Ghetto, 1940
Resettlement of Jews to the ghetto area c. March 1940. Old Synagogue in the far background (no longer extant).
German and Jewish police guard at the entrance to the ghetto
Chaim Rumkowski delivering a speech in the ghetto, 1941–42
Chaim Rumkowski
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Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski was the head of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto appointed by Nazi Germany during the German occupation of Poland.
Łódź Ghetto
…commonly called the Judenrat or the Ältestenrat ("Council of Elders") in Łódź. The chairman of the Judenrat appointed by the Nazi administration was Chaim Rumkowski (age 62 in 1939). Even today, he is still considered one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Holocaust. Known mockingly as "King…
Chaim Rumkowski (left) and Hans Biebow (right) in the Łódź Ghetto, c. 1940–1944
Before the war, Rumkowski directed a Jewish orphanage in Łódź.
Chaim Rumkowski in the Łódź Ghetto, tasting soup.