Three Complete Sheets of the Lodz Ghetto Stamps - Extremely Rare!

Three complete sheets of Ghetto Lodz stamps. Values: 5, 10 and 20. The stamps were issued by the head of the Judenrat of the Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt). Each sheet contains twenty stamps. Complete sheets of these stamps are extremely rare. Attached is a certificate of an expert by Ya'akov Tzachor.

Lodz is the second economically and commercially most important city in Poland after Warsaw. It was known as the center of textile of Poland. Its Jewish community was also the second-largest community after Warsaw. About 200,000 Jews lived there. Many of them worked in the textile industry. The Jewish life in the city were lively and included financial institutions, educational institutions, religious institutions, prominent rabbis, youth movements and more.
The Germans established a ghetto in the city to which Jews from the villages around it were deported.
The chairman of the Judenrat – the Jewish Council of the ghetto - appointed by the Nazi administration was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Even today, he is still considered one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Holocaust. Known mockingly as "King Chaim" Rumkowski was granted unprecedented powers by the Nazi officials, which authorized him to take all necessary measures to maintain order in the Ghetto.
Rumkowski adopted an autocratic style of leadership in order to transform the ghetto into an industrial base manufacturing war supplies. Convinced that Jewish productivity would ensure survival, he forced the population to work 12-hour days despite abysmal conditions and the lack of calories and protein;[19] producing uniforms, garments, wood and metalwork, and electrical equipment for the German military. By 1943, some 95 percent of the adult population was employed in 117 workshops, which – Rumkowski once boasted to the mayor of Łódź – were a "gold mine." It was possibly because of this productivity that the Łódź Ghetto managed to survive long after all the other ghettos in occupied Poland were liquidated, although eventually, its Jews too were sent to their death in Auschwitz. .
Rumkowski, who managed the ghetto as a small autonomy, issued banknotes and stamps to be used in the ghetto, which of course depicted his picture.

The Stamps
The stamps were issued on March 1944. Their values were 5, 10 and 20. Each sheet contains 20 stamps. The stamps depict Rumkowski's picture on the left side and work tools used by the Jews in the workshops on the right, matching Rumkowski's perception.
Soon after the stamps were printed, the Germans decided these stamps wouldn't be permitted. Only a small amount were sold by then by the Ghetto post office.
Naturally, these stamps have become a desired item among stamp collectors and people interested in Jewish history and the Holocaust.
What is special about the item before us is that these are complete sheets of stamps, of which only few have survived and they are extremely rare.
Almost all the residents of the ghetto had been murdered, including Rumkowski. Only a few people survived, one of them being the artist who illustrated the stamps – Pinchas Schwartz, who immigrated to Israel and became the well-known illustrator Pinchas Sha'ar.
Condition: Very Good.
Attached is a certificate of an expert by Ya'akov Tzachor.
Extremely Rare!