For the Jews life was not easy even before the...

For the Jews life was not easy even before the ghetto was established.
From 12 November 1939, when it became mandatory to wear the Jewish armbands, life got even harder.
Nobody felt safe in their own apartment, having to put up with visits of the Germans, often acompanied by beatings.
On the streets Jews were humiliated and forced to work. The Poles also took part in such scenes.
The longing to go and hide somewhere, in order not to be seen and to see no one was so strong that some Jews thought that the ghetto would become some sort of shelter.

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.