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Three Postage Stamps of the Lodz Ghetto - Three postage stamps of the Lodz Ghetto with the portrait of the head of the Judenrat of the ghetto, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Rumkowski was a Polish Jew and wartime businessman appointed by Nazi Germany as the head of the Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II. He accrued exponentially more power by transforming the Ghetto into an industrial base manufacturing war supplies for the Wehrmacht army in the mistaken belief that productivity was the key to Jewish survival beyond the Holocaust. The Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. All remaining prisoners were sent to death camps in the wake of military defeats on the Eastern Front of World War II. The first stamps of the ghetto were issued on 9.3.1944; however, a short while later, the Nazis forbade using them. Before us are three blue, green and brown stamps of 5, 10 and 20 Pfennig. They are glued onto a cardboard by means of adhesive tape on their back. On the stamps, the inscription: ”Jewish post. Litzmannstadt”. On the cardboard, a German newspaper clipping is also glued with the story of how the stamps had been ”saved” by a Jewish-Russian officer who entered the offices of the Judenrat after the release of Lodz and took them. Condition: Good. Glue stains with no damage to text.