All Jews up to the age of sixty were obligated...

All Jews up to the age of sixty were obligated to labor. Due to this fact the Germans organized work camps - separate for ghettos from each city. They were not yet death camps, but it would be fair to call them torture camps. Words cannot describe the sufferings and humiliations the victims had to endure. Malnutrition and sickness was everywhere. Not many people came back from such camps - the few that managed looked like drained of their vital forces - several of them died soon.

Written between 1952 and 1954, the book is a key work documenting the Warsaw ghetto from its inception to its final days.
How did life continue in the Warsaw ghetto? What organizations took - or should have taken - care of its inhabitants? How did so many survive in such terrible isolation? In answering those questions Michel Mazor details the vanishing of a city.
The book is a study of the social and political life of the Warsaw ghetto.