Holocaust

Seventy-one years ago today, on August 28, 1944, Jewish Sonderkommando Auschwitz inmates beat to death a man named Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski. Rumkowski, the former head of the Lodz Ghetto’s Council of Elders, is still the topic of debate: Was he a decent man working for the safety of the ghetto’s Jews—or was he simply a […]