The working conditions for the community worke...

The working conditions for the community workers were extremely difficult. They had to deal with hunger, dysentery and typhus. The meetings devoted to elections took place evenings in apartment blocks, after curfew. Due to this the workers had to stay overnight in that building. Most often they would spend the night in a chair, in the corner of an overcrowded room. In this way certain workers contracted typhus and sometimes died from it.

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.