The Jews have a deep sense of dignity which no...

The Jews have a deep sense of dignity which no pain and no suffering could undermine. As a proof to this theory the author quotes a scene that took place shortly before the ghetto came into existence. He and his friend were walking along Marszalkowska Street, both wearing armbands. Suddenly they found themselves face to face with two German boys from some Nazi organization. They started shouting at the Jews to take of their hats to them. Both boys were holding crops. The author and his friend took their caps off, when suddenly they sensed that the boys feel helpless as if they understood that no crop in the world could subjugate the Jews spirit. The boys turned on their heels and went off.

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.