Given name: Moishe Family name: Kaganowicz

  • YES
  • Male
  • Moishe
  • Kaganowicz

  • A member of the Jewish Social Welfare Association, a lawyer, a member of the Zionist movement, he directed the service that gave the coupons good for meals at the people's kitchen.

  • activists, Intelligentsia, around the author

  • He had a noble character, modest, dedicated to social causes.

  • 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.

  • 61-62