It was impossible to improve the living condit...

It was impossible to improve the living conditions of the working class, at a time when every worker was ready to accept any working condition at all, just to be let into the workshops or factories. That gave him the illusion he could save himself and his family from deportation.

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