Search & Research, Lectures and Papers 6: Reassessment of the Image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

Michal Unger

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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.

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.

Products specifications
Year 2004
ISBN 965-308-237-X
Catalog No. 451
No. of Pages 62 pp.
Size 17X24 cm.
Format Soft Cover
Publisher Yad Vashem
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