Language:
English
Pages:
55 Seiten
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
Search and research : lectures and papers 6
Series Statement:
Search and research
Keywords:
Rumkowski, Chaim M.
;
Ghetto Łódź
Abstract:
Historian Michal Unger, specialist in the history of Lodz and the ghetto, surveys the "grey areas" of still-controversial figure Rumkowski, "Der Alteste der Juden." Crude, domineering, aggressive - will history judge him as a traitor who aided and abetted the Germans in liquidating the Jews of Lodz, or should he be seen as a tragic heroic figure who tried to delay death by employing as many children as possible in the workshop system he set up? A scholarly, readable new look at Rumkowski.
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