Holocaust historiography and the changing image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

The character and actions of Rumkowski, the "Elder of the Jews" in the Lodz ghetto, still sparks heated disagreement and raises moral dilemmas that remain relevant today. He remains one of the most detested and highly criticized of all Judenrat chairmen. Recent decades have witnessed changes in the assessment of the conduct of Judenrat chairmen in general, and Unger's article discusses this development in the assessment of Rumkowski