Given name: Unknown Family name: Gutkowski

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  • Gutkowski

  • A journalist. He wrote a book on life in the ghetto. He managed to escape the train which was on its way to Treblinka. He returned to the ghetto, where he died.

  • Intelligentsia

  • 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.

  • 172,174-175