Barbara Engelking is professor and chief of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Jacek Leociak is head of the Research Team for Holocaust Literature Study at the Institute for Literary Researches, Polish Academy of Sciences. Both authors live in Warsaw.
"A pathbreaking, original contribution to the Holocaust literature. These gifted scholars have succeeded in synthesizing complex evidence into a new and comprehensive tapestry of ghetto life."-Nechama Tec, author of Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust -- Nechama Tec "Engelking and Leociak collect an astonishing amount of unpublished material. They give a full picture of daily life in the ghetto such as has never been attempted before."-Walter Laqueur, editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia -- Walter Laqueur "Presenting an astonishing amount of information, carefully evaluated and usefully organized, The Warsaw Ghetto is not only a lasting guide to a great Jewish city, it is a monument to contemporary Polish scholarship, on which it draws so heavily, and a moving memorial to the nearly half a million Jews who at one time or another suffered in one of the Germans' most grotesque creations during the Second World War."-Toronto Globe & Mail Toronto Globe and Mail Finalist in the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust Category sponsored by the Jewish Book Council -- National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust Category Finalist Jewish Book Council "It is a major achievement that this encyclopedia-like work also has an epic character, traces the fates of individual people, is full of emotions and empathy, and presents the entire diversity of Warsaw Jewry...No historical library, either private or public, can be complete without this volume. No scholar can work on the history of the Warsaw ghetto or the Holocaust in Poland without using this book, which, most certainly, will not be replaced by anything better for many years to come."--Piotr Wrobel, Slavic Review -- Piotr Wrobel Slavic Review
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