The author recalls the following episode. One...

The author recalls the following episode. One day he met with his friends in a cafe on Sienna Street. There they discovered that a great feast was taking place. Around a large table, lavishly spread, Jewish and Polish policemen were sitting. They were celebrating the first anniversary of their collaboration. This was a continuation of the celebration, which had begun in the restaurant Sztuka. It was paid for by the Jewish police.

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.