Before the German invasion of Poland , Rumkowski was an insurance agent in Łódź ; member of Qahal , and in 1925 – 1939 head of a Jewish orphanage at Krajowa 15 Street . 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 . The occupation authority ordered the creation of the new Jewish Councils known as the '' Judenräte '' which acted as bridges between the Nazis and the prisoner population of the ghettos . In addition to managing basic services such as communal kitchens , infirmaries , post offices and vocational schools , common tasks of the '' Judenräte '' included providing the Nazi regime with slave labor , and rounding up quotas of Jews for " resettlement in the East , " a euphemism for deportations to extermination camps in the deadliest phase of the Holocaust
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Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany
Chaim Rumkowski