The idea of escaping never occured to the auth...

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  • The idea of escaping never occured to the author and his wife.
    But in the factory they became very friendly with a young couple-the engineer Perelrot and his wife Lucy. It was Lucy who began persuading Mrs. Mazor to escape the ghetto.

  • 1942-08-00
  • deportation
  • private life / daily life
  • atmosphere, engineer, the 'Aryan' side

  • 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.

  • 162-163

  • 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...

    • Mazor Rose

      Michel Mazor's wife.In August 1942 she escaped the ghetto. She lived under the name Marie-Rosalie Mazurkiewicz.

    • Perelrot Unknown

      An engineer. He was hiding with his wife in the Landau brother's factory.

    • Perelrot Lucy

      She was hiding with her husband in the Landau brother's factory. She managed to escape from the ghetto.

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