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<p>[QUOTE="Inquisitive, post: 1625736, member: 20698"]The notes from Lodz were generally called "Rumkin"s or "Rumkies" after the head of the Judenrat, Chaim <span style="color: #000000">Rumkowski.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"><i>With złotych, those in the ghetto would have been able to buy, at least to a limited extent, things from "outside" and maybe smuggle them in. With such ghetto money, however ...</i></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"><i><br /></i></span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"><i></i>That was (part of) the point. The other part was that with Rumkies being the only valid currency inside, people were forced to trade their "hard" currency and goods for script that was worthless outside the Ghetto.</span></p><p></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Inquisitive, post: 1625736, member: 20698"]The notes from Lodz were generally called "Rumkin"s or "Rumkies" after the head of the Judenrat, Chaim [COLOR=#000000]Rumkowski. [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][I]With złotych, those in the ghetto would have been able to buy, at least to a limited extent, things from "outside" and maybe smuggle them in. With such ghetto money, however ... [/I]That was (part of) the point. The other part was that with Rumkies being the only valid currency inside, people were forced to trade their "hard" currency and goods for script that was worthless outside the Ghetto.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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