The author urged his neighbor-Segal to jump ou...

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  • The author urged his neighbor-Segal to jump out of the train with them. Segal replied-' What's the use?They've taken my wife and daughter. Either I'll find them alive again somewhere, or I'll die like them'.

  • 1942-09-04
  • 1942-09-04
  • deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, rescue attempts, 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:

    • Mazor Michel

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

    • Segal Unknown

      A dentist, a member of the Jewish Social Welfare Association. He probably died in Treblinka.

    • Segal Unknown

      She died in Treblinka. Segal's wife.

    • Segal Unknown

      She died in Treblinka. Segal's daughter.