Given name: Leon Family name: Berenson

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  • Leon
  • Berenson

  • A lawyer, member of the intellectual elite of the ghetto. He worked in social welfare. Before the war, he was the first Polish diplomatic envoy in Ukraine. He died in the ghetto of a heart condition.

  • activists, Intelligentsia, around the author

  • 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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