Rumkowski and the Orphans of Lodz
By Lucille Eichengreen
With Rebecca Fromer
144 pages, Jewish Studies / Memoir
ISBN 978-1562791155
Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi-appointed head of the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto, had absolute authority over selections and deportations. He also used his power to molest children in the Lodz orphanage and outside. This quiet, devastating memoir by a Holocaust survivor documents her own abuse by Rumkowski and the accounts she heard from many others who suffered at his hands.
Lucille Eichengreen (1925 – 2020) was born Cecilia Landau in Hamburg, Germany, in 1925. A survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, she came to New York in 1946, and retired in Berkeley, traveling to speak on the Holocaust at schools and universities.
Rebecca Fromer (1927-2012) was a teacher, poet, and playwright, and cofounder of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum in Berkeley, California.
