Given name: Unknown Family name: Goldheimer

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  • Male
  • Goldheimer
  • A Bund member. Before the war he was a traveling salesman, and earned a good living. In the ghetto his material situation was bad. He was an active social worker. He regularly attended social workers' meetings, which took place every Saturday. He wouldn't miss them despite the fact that once a week, at this very time, he had the opportunity to eat his fill- he was invited to lunch every Saturday by his friend. Finally the time of the meeting was changed for him.

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  • 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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