Given name: Michał Family name: Krol

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  • Michał
  • Krol

  • Michel Mazor's friend. in 1905 he was deported to Siberia, from which he returned only in 1918. His fiancee had waited for him all these years and as soon as he returned they wed. His wife soon died in childbirth and the child did not survive. He never re-married.
    During the war he accepted a post in the Jewish Council. He died of typhus.

  • 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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