Given name: Chaim Family name: Rumkowski

Before the war he lived at Poludniowa Street No. 26. He was Reicher's neighbour and patient. A small factory owner, he worked hard. Orphanage in Helenowek honorary patronage. A Zionist, he had some kind of a deviation (what kind? a pedophile?). People said that he was blackmailed by the mothers of small girls - the victims of his lecherousness. Afterwards he was an insurance agent. He lost two wifes and did not want to have any children. He came from an orthodox family from Lithuania, finished a Volkschule and a cheder. He could not speak good Polish, Russian or German, only Yiddish. A town-councilor of Lodz on behalf of the Zionists. He was related with Rosenberg - a Nazi ideologist (the Myth of the 20th Century); they corresponded with each other. He suffered from megalomania and a persecution complex. Energetic, he had a huge organizational talent, tried to outwit the Germans.