The author, Natan Asz, Mirabel and Gutkowski d...

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  • The author, Natan Asz, Mirabel and Gutkowski decided to keep together. They thought that a forceful intervention would be made on their behalf. Nothing like that happened. That day everything went smoothly with the deportation transports.

  • 1942-09-04
  • 1942-09-04
  • deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, 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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  • Related people:

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      He was born in Kiev of jewish parents. After studying law, he left Russia at the outbreak of the civil war and moved...

    • Asz Natan

      The general secretary of the Jewish Social Welfare Organization. He managed to escape from the train which was on it...

    • Mirabel Unknown

      A lawyer. He jumped out of the train which was on its way to Treblinka. It is possible that he died immediately, on...

    • Gutkowski Unknown

      A journalist. He wrote a book on life in the ghetto. He managed to escape the train which was on its way to Treblink...