it requires a truly solid moral armature, and the one available to Chaim Rumkowski...was fragile." At best, Levi viewed Rumkowski as morally ambiguous and self deluded. Hannah Arendt, in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, placed Rumkowski's egotism at the low end of the spectrum of wartime ghetto leadership examples. Professor Yehuda Bauer points out that if the Russians had continued their summer offensive in 1944, Lodz would have been the only ghetto to be liberated with a significant amount of its inhabitants still alive, and Rumkowski might be remembered in a very different light. See also The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz – a 1982 documentary Adam Czerniaków, head of Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto Internalized oppression Respectability politics Notes References Horwitz, Gordon J. Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, Lebovic, Matt. 'King Chaim', ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit. The Times of Israel, March 28, 2017. Löw, Andrea Juden im Getto Litzmannstadt: Lebensbedingungen, Selbstwahrnehmung, Verhalten. Wallstein: Göttingen, 2006 Unger, Michal Lodz – The Last Ghetto in Poland. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, (in Hebrew) Epstein, Leslie (novel) King of the Jews, New York: 1976 Sem-Sandberg, Steve. (novel) De fattiga i Łódź. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, (novel, in Swedish); English title The Emperor of Lies, published in translation in 2011 External links United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Online Exhibition: Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Lodz Ghetto , US Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Library Bibliography: Łódź Ghetto, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Rumkowski's "Give Me Your Children" Speech, Jewish Virtual Library "Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim", Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority "Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim", Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online 1877 births 1944 deaths Jewish collaborators with Nazi Germany Łódź Ghetto inmates Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Polish civilians killed in World War II Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Jewish Polish history