Rumkowski and the Orphans of Lodz

by Lucille Eichengreen

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Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed head of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, had absolute authority over selections and deportations. He also used his power to molest children in the Lodz orphanage and outside. This quiet, devastating memoir by a Holocaust survivor documents her own abuse by Rumkowski and the accounts she heard from many others who suffered at his hands.… (more)

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Lucille Eichengreen ha vissuto all’interno della più longeva tra le comunità ebraiche intrappolate nell’Europa nazista, quella del ghetto di Lodz, il secondo della Polonia dopo Varsavia, dominato dalla controversa figura di Chaim Rumkowski, rievocata anche da Primo Levi ne I sommersi e i salvati. (fonte: Google Books)

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Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

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Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed head of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, had absolute authority over selections and deportations. He also used his power to molest children in the Lodz orphanage and outside. This quiet, devastating memoir by a Holocaust survivor documents her own abuse by Rumkowski and the accounts she heard from many others who suffered at his hands.

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