Ever since 1941 the Jewish cemetery officially...

Ever since 1941 the Jewish cemetery officially lay beyond the ghetto's borders. It was the site at which food was purchased from smugglers from the Aryan side.
The morticians' staff brought the supplies in hearses once they were emptied of their burdens, the dead, who had often succumbed to typhus or other ilnesses.
The famine forced people to buy such food.

Written between 1952 and 1954, the book is a key work documenting the Warsaw ghetto from its establishment to its final days.
How did life look like in the Warsaw ghetto? What organizations took - or should have taken - care of its inhabitants? How did so many survive in such a 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.