An edict had been issued, applying the death p...

An edict had been issued, applying the death penalty to any Jewish person who crossed the borders of the ghetto.
A few days later 19 people were arrested. The Germans wanted to have the executions carried out by the Polish police, but they refused. Finally the Germans were to shoot the detainees in the presence of the Polish police.

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.