The Tenement Committees were deeply rooted in...

The Tenement Committees were deeply rooted in the life of the ghetto and were very important. An example to this is a joke: when a woman was trying to justify her prolonged absence, she did not use the traditional exuse of stopping at the dressmaker's, but the pretext of consulting the secretary of the Tenement Committee.

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.