Given name: Aleksander Family name: Landau

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  • Aleksander
  • Landau

  • One of the organisers and directors of The Society for the Support of Agriculture.
    One day, when the ghetto's borders were changed, an apartment block was cut off from the world. It was Landau that found the means to get into these apartments and supply them with food. Otherwise its residents would face starvation.
    In 1943 he was transferred to Vittel, then to a death camp, where he died. During the war he lost his only daughter.

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  • Big-hearted, a superb organiser.

  • 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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