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Author Engelking-Boni, Barbara, 1962-
Title The Warsaw ghetto : a guide to the perished city / by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak ; translated by Emma Harris.
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
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Description xxix, 906 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., maps (chiefly col.) + 3 folded maps.
Notes Three folded col. maps in pocket.
Original title: Getto Warszawskie.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary The establishment and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience. The authors explore the history of the ghetto's evolution, the actual daily experience of its thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1940 to its liquidation following the uprising of 1943.
Subject Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Ethnic relations.
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945.
Other Names Leociak, Jacek.