In the Jewish Council headquarters the author...

In the Jewish Council headquarters the author meets his old friend - Michał Krol, whom he had not seen since the occupation began. He was startled to learn that his friend accepted a post in the Jewish Council. Krol answered the question that the author could not bring himself to ask - ' Here or elsewhere-isn't it all the same?Maybe here it's still possible to do something'. Krol wanted to explain himself.

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.