Rumors were circulating that only men up to th...

Rumors were circulating that only men up to the age of 35 would be spared. So the older men started to dye their hair in order to look younger. These efforts gave a highly unconvincing color-yellowish-reddish-greenish. It made a gloomy sight, a sort of macabre masquerade.

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.