The author left the ghetto only once to visit...

The author left the ghetto only once to visit some German Jews who had been sent to Poland in the spring of 1942. They were being housed in a school building outside the ghetto.

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.