leaders during the holocaust

 It's not exactly what we've been talking about today, but I think, that it's a very interesting topic. During Shoah there were many leaders who help Jewish people survive, or at least die with dignity. Some of them, like Mordechaj Anielewicz, Marek Edelman and other leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising decided to lead, because they felt the need to fight the nazis. But there were also official leaders, recognized by Germans, or even collaborating with them.
 The Jewish leader in the Warsaw ghetto was called Adam Czerniakow. He is famous mostly because of the suicide he commited. He didn't support the resistance. His politics was simple: he tried to help people from the ghetto by making their lives as easy as possible. If he had food, he would give it to them, if he could let them rest, he would do it. He was doing everything his people expected him to do.
 A much more interesting person is Chaim Rumkowski, the leader of the Lodz ghetto. He was not a "good" leader, he abused young Jews in his ghetto. His main idea was to become usefull for the Germans, so they won't kill them. He is famous for asking people to give him their children, as the only way to survive. His ego was enormous, he even used money named after him "chaimki". He made Jews work very hard. The people of his ghetto suffered and lived in terror and hunger, but produced much more than other ghettos.
 So which one of them was a better leader? The question seems simple, Jews in Warsaw had easier lives than the Jews in Lodz. From the other side, we can imagine what would happen if the aliants would decide to act earlier. The Lodz ghetto lasted longer than any other polish ghetto, so maybe, just maybe Rumkowski could save many lives. Of course, this does not justify all the "wrong" things he did, but it allows us to see him in a different light.