Given name: Zanwel Family name: Dywan

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  • Male
  • Zanwel
  • Dywan

  • A member of the Bund. For many years he was the leader of Bund in Plock. He spent a few years in England. In the ghetto he earned his living by giving English lessons.

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  • Sensitive to human suffering. He was called 'the conscience of the Central Commission of Housing Committees'.

  • Written between 1952 and 1954, the book is a key work documenting the Warsaw ghetto from its establishment to its final days. What 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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