Given name: Abram Family name: Gepner

  • YES
  • Male
  • Abram
  • Gepner

  • President of the Union of Jewish Merchants, 70-years-old, a member of the Judenrat. He built up an important metal-selling business.

  • the rich

  • A scrupulously honest man, ready to sacrifice himself in the name of justice. When the mass deportations began, he placed himself first in the ranks out of which most victims were chosen.

  • 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.

  • 44-45