The Jewish Social Welfare Association sixth di...

The Jewish Social Welfare Association sixth district comprised more than 100,000 inhabitants and some 250 buildings. The district included a high percentage of newlyarrived families. These people had no source of income and no property - they were unadapted to the new living conditions.
Poverty, overcrowding and chaos made the situation impossible to govern. The Jewish Social Welfare Association needed immediate help. It came thanks to the intervention of the Tenement Committees.

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.