Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement dated 03 May 1940 regarding Rumkowski's appointment as the person responsible for carrying out all tasks imposed on the Jews The residents are forbidden to leave the ghetto; Rumkowski's appointment as the person responsible for carrying out all tasks imposed on the Jews; Rumkowski's responsibilities include: arranging the economic life of the ghetto, seeing to the food supply and guarding the public's health; announcement that the Jewish Order Police will be at Rumkowski's disposal; Rumkowski will be preparing a list of ghetto residents; he is authorized to confiscate the property and goods of private individuals for the good of the general ghetto population; he will be the contact between the German authorities and the residents of the ghetto.