Gutkowski was to jump first. Before he did, he...

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  • Gutkowski was to jump first. Before he did, he told his companions that a while before, he had finished writing a book on life in the ghetto. He carried it always around with him but a few days ago he gave it tohis friend to read. He hoped that in this way it would not get lost.

  • 1942-09-04
  • 1942-09-04
  • deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • rescue attempts, artists/writers, deportation

  • 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.

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