High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski (February 27, 1877 - August 28, 1944) was a Polish Jew and functioned as the German Nazi-nominated head of the Altestenrat ("Council of Elders"), or Jewish authorities in the Lodz Ghetto. Before the Nazi German invasion of Poland, Rumkowski was a businessman and director of an orphanage. On October 13, 1939, the Nazi occupation authorities appointed him the Judenalteste ("Elder of the Jews"), or head of the Altestenrat, in Lodz. In all other ghettos, the head of the Jewish council was known as the Judenrat. In this position he reported directly to the Nazi ghetto administration headed by Hans Biebow and had direct responsibility for providing heat, work, food, housing, and health and welfare services to the ghetto population. He performed marriages when rabbis had to stop working, his name came to serve in the nickname of the ghetto's money, the Rumki, sometimes Chaimki, and his face appeared on the ghetto postage...

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