Fabryka muchołapek

A writer from Łódź, now living in Wrocław, accepts a strange commission: for a fee, he is to return to his home town and attend a trial. The client is the devil; the accused, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat of the Łódź ghetto, who turned it into an efficient factory for the Reich in the hope of saving its Jews from Auschwitz. His contemporaries, collaborators and victims testify. Was he driven by care for the community or by lust for power? Meanwhile the writer falls for the beautiful Dora and takes her walking through today's Łódź.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

275 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2008 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788374145138 (original)