By Charles G. Roland. 352 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $25. ISBN 0-19-506285-X.
It is difficult to imagine a more dreadful existence than thatfaced by the half-million Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw ghettofrom 1940 to 1943. Under the pretext of a quarantine (for typhus),Nazi authorities ordered walls to be erected around the ghetto,sealing it off from the outside world. Thirty percent of thepopulation of Warsaw was confined to just over 2 percent ofthe city's land mass. Deprived of food, fuel, and often water,people began to freeze and to starve, even as trainloads ofJews from other parts of Europe were forced into the ghetto.In a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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