The authors meeting with the group of German J...

The authors meeting with the group of German Jews is still vivid in his memory. He recalls a women, who unlike the others had very little baggage with her, but was happy to have been able to bring her copy of Faust with her.
The order that reigned in these small rooms, each containing at least 40 people, was exemplary.
What struck the author was the air of optimism as well as the absence of any sigh of fear. The young people were dancing to music from a phonograph. Everyone was asking the same questions: was the housing clean? Was there any fear of heavy bombings?

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.