Given name: Izaak Family name: Notes

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  • Male
  • Izaak
  • Notes

  • member of the House Committee. He lived all winter with his sister in an unheated room whose door had been broken down. They never took their clothes off. Eventually his sister contracted pneumonia and died. Isaac never gave up and continued to help the poorest.

  • Written between 1952 and 1954, the book is a key work documenting the Warsaw ghetto from its establishment to its final days. What did life look like in the Warsaw ghetto? What organizations took - or should have taken - care of its inhabitants? How did so many survive in such a 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.

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