 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.Alastair Morton

Sir Robert Alastair Newton Morton (11 January 1938 – 1 September 2004) was Chief Executive of Eurotunnel and Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority and an industrialist of considerable achievements and renown.