No manifestation of ghetto life had a purely d...

No manifestation of ghetto life had a purely dark side: If one day a Jewish policeman received an order to bring fiver victims each to the Umschlagplatz and they carried this out, to save their own necks-on the other hand there were cases of people trying to take the place of their beloved ones in the deportation lines or lining up with them.

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.