![Motto of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz ghetto Jewish council: "Our only path [to survival] is [through] work." [LCID: 74527]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/4a64f479-f9d0-4f31-b95e-896c5ebc9e97.jpg)
The motto of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz ghetto Jewish council: "Our only path [to survival] is [through] work." Lodz, Poland, wartime.
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