 According to Dr. Edward Reicher, a Holocaust survivor from Łódź, Rumkowski had an unhealthy interest in children.Łódź was annexed by the invading Germans into the Third Reich and became part of the territory of new Reichsgau Wartheland, separate from the "Generalgouvernement" established in most of the German-occupied Poland.Smaller Jewish communities were dissolved and forcibly relocated to metropolitan ghettos.