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A compelling tale of power, corruption and compromise from one of Scandinavia''s most revered authors.

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman. Mysterious, ambiguous and monarchical, ''King Chaim'' forced adults and children alike to work punishing hours providing supplies for the German military. Thousands of others were transported and never seen again.

Was Rumkowski an accessory to the Nazi regime, driven by lust for power, or was he a pragmatic strategist, actively saving Jewish lives through apparent collaboration? Steve Sem-Sandberg draws on genuine chronicles of life in the Lódz ghetto to capture the full panorama of human resilience, and to question the nature of good and evil.

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 5 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780571259212
      978-0571259212
      ISBN-10 0571259219

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A compelling tale of power, corruption and compromise from one of Scandinavia''s most revered authors.

      In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman. Mysterious, ambiguous and monarchical, ''King Chaim'' forced adults and children alike to work punishing hours providing supplies for the German military. Thousands of others were transported and never seen again.

      Was Rumkowski an accessory to the Nazi regime, driven by lust for power, or was he a pragmatic strategist, actively saving Jewish lives through apparent collaboration? Steve Sem-Sandberg draws on genuine chronicles of life in the Lódz ghetto to capture the full panorama of human resilience, and to question the nature of good and evil.

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