Given name: Unknown Family name: Gancwajch

  • YES
  • Male
  • Gancwajch
  • Head of The Office to Combat Profiteering and Speculation (the 'Thirteen'). After the 'Thirteen' was liquidated he was the protector of the Emergency Service in the Jewish Police.

  • The diary contains information about different aspects of life in the Warsaw ghetto: internal imprisonment in the ghetto, obligatory disinfection, activity of Gestapo agents (so-called the 'Thirteen') and entrepreneurs Kon and Heller, resettlements of people from the provinces, activity of house committees, social stratification of the ghetto population, food smuggling, furs confiscation, diminution of the ghetto boundaries, exhibitions, plays, resettlement of the Gypsies to the ghetto. Informative fragments interweave with belles-lettres narration describing personal experiences.

  • 9-10,37-38