Chaim Rumkowski: Difference between revisions

There are conflicting accounts regarding Rumkowski's final moments. According to one contemporary source he was murdered upon his arrival at Auschwitz by the Jews of Łódź who preceded him there.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-rumkowski-died/ |title=Commentary Magazine May 1979 "How Rumkowski Died" by Lodz Ghetto/Auschwitz survivor Michael Cheniski] |access-date=2019-12-19 |archive-date=2019-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219190727/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-rumkowski-died/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> This version of events, however, has been challenged by historians. Another report, submitted by a ''[[Sonderkommando]]'' member from Hungary, {{ill|Dov Paisikovic|de}}, states that the Jews of Łódź approached the ''Sonderkommando'' Jews in secrecy, and asked them to kill Rumkowski for the crimes he committed in the Łódź Ghetto, so they beat him to death at the gate of the Crematorium No. 2 and disposed of his corpse.<ref name="Unger2004" />

* United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/lodz/ Online Exhibition: ''Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Lodz Ghetto''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912124330/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/lodz/ |date=2013-09-12 }}, US Holocaust Memorial Museum