Courage Under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto

by Charles G. Roland

The story of the Warsaw ghetto is one of the most tragic episodes in the Second World War. Using a so-called "threat of typhus" as their "scientific" justification for quarantine, the Nazis crammed almost a half million Jews into a small quarter of the city, depriving them of food, clean water, adequate sanitation, and medical supplies. For three years, from 1940 to 1943, the ghetto inhabitants were packed seven or more to a room, struggling incessantly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506285X
• ISBN13: 9780195062854
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Ghetto Superstar!

This book contains great detailed information on the lives and times of the Jews during the Holocaust. I would recommended it to anyone doing research, or to any one who want to know about the resistance effort or the type of life that was experienced under the Nazi party. Contains excellent pictures as well.