The Vanished City: Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto - Hardcover

Mazor, Michel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941419932 ISBN 13: 9780941419932

Publisher: Marsilio Pub, 1993

Synopsis

The author shares his impressions of daily life in the Warsaw ghetto and analyzes the relationship between conditions, social pressures, and individual behavior

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Transported from the Warsaw Ghetto in September 1942, and bound for the Treblinka extermination camp, Mazor escaped from a cattle car. His wife fled from the ghetto a month earlier by climbing a cemetery wall. Their dramatic escapes are described in this valuable memoir. Originally published in French in 1955, the book poignantly evokes the moral climate of the Warsaw Ghetto, "a state of feverish hopelessness coupled, despite everything, with a faith in liberation." Mazor, a Russian Jewish lawyer who emigrated to Poland after the Bolshevik revolution, moved to Paris at the end of WW II and died in the 1970s. He charges that the Warsaw Ghetto's Judenrat (German-appointed Jewish council) refused to take those measures that were within its powers to alleviate the misery of the ghetto's inhabitants. Providing a moving picture of the ghetto's convulsive day-to-day existence, he analyzes its social structure and documents the activities of its tenement committees, political parties and relief organizations.
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From Library Journal:

Though Mazor, a Polish Jew who was discharged to the Treblinka death camp in 1942 but escaped, wrote this account of the Warsaw ghetto in the Fifties, it has only now been translated. It offers a valuable picture of the social structure and problems of the Warsaw ghetto, describing such social institutions as the Judenrat, Mutual Aid, and the Tenement Committees and how they functioned. In addition, it offers observations on the feelings and moral dilemmas of the Jewish victims. While not an official history of the ghetto, Mazor's account does provide important impressions of what it was like to live in unspeakable conditions and in utter daily terror. The book presents a compelling illustration of the frustration, spirit, and hope of the Jews who suffered and perished in the Warsaw ghetto. Recommended for academic libraries and for libraries with a special interest in the Holocaust and Jewish people.
- Mary Salony, West Virginia Northern Community Coll. Lib., Wheeling
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About this edition

• Publisher: Marsilio Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0941419932
• ISBN 13: 9780941419932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208