Given name: Chaim Family name: Rumkowski (10)

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The chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz. He was called 'Chaim the first'. He instilled the Jews in Lodz that he is the only person they can believe in; he created a new currency, the 'chaims', new public holidays on the day of his and his wife's birthdays. He created a system of total obedience and control.

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The chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz, organisation 'created by the most unhappy prisoners' in the Lodz ghetto.

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He managed the ghetto in Lodz. His policy was based on collecting valuables, fur coats and foreign currency from the rich, and buying for this money food for the poor. This led to eliminating differences between the rich and the poor.

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The chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz.

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Before the war he lived at Poludniowa Street No. 26. He was Reicher's neighbour and patient. A small factory owner, he worked hard. Orphanage in Helenowek honorary patronage. A Zionist, he had some kind of a deviation (what kind? a pedophile?). People said that he was blackmailed by the mothers of small girls - the victims of his lecherousness. Afterwards he was an insurance agent. He lost two wifes and did not want to have any children. He came from an orthodox family from Lithuania, finished a Volkschule and a cheder. He could not speak good Polish, Russian or German, only Yiddish. A town-councilor of Lodz on behalf of the Zionists. He was related with Rosenberg - a Nazi ideologist (the Myth of the 20th Century); they corresponded with each other. He suffered from megalomania and a persecution complex. Energetic, he had a huge organizational talent, tried to outwit the Germans.

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Chairman of the Council of Eldest of the Jews in the ghetto in Lodz. He visited the Warsaw Ghetto.

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He visited Warsaw ca. 25 May 1941, then on 19 June. He came for 15 doctors.

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Chairman of the Eldest of the Jews (der Aelteste der Juden) in Lodz

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Rządził w getcie w Łodzi. Był na usługach Gestapo. Przeprowadził całkowite oddzielenie Żydów od świata, które w żadnym mieście nie było tak dokładne, uniemożliwił wszelki handel.

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He was half mad

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discrepancy, regarding the date of Rumkowski's visit in Warsaw, between Mary Berg's testimony and R. Sakowska's study.

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Adler, Stanisław<> <>

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

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Reicher, Edward W ostrym swietle dnia. Dziennik zydowskiego lekarza 1939-1945 (In Broad Daylight. A Diary of a Jewish Doctor 1939 - 1945)

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

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

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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

(1) cz. 2, str.74, (2) 18, (4) [56], (5) 21, 24, (6) [s.145], (7) 42/2, 52/2, (8) 57; ... 148, (9) [147], (10) 164-165