As the factory was under German management, it...

As the factory was under German management, it had two telephone lines. One was to telephone into the city and the other one was to remain free for incoming calls. The communication was good.
One day, one of the lines was cut off. This made it very hard to communicate with the outside world. The queues were gigantic and everyone kept on fighting over the receiver.

Written between 1952 and 1954, the book is a key work documenting the Warsaw ghetto from its establishment to its final days.
How 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.