About the Author

Katarzyna Person is a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland.

Reviews

An excellent analysis of assimilated groups of Polish Jews who were forced to live together in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940-1943 with all other types of Jews.--New York Journal of Books
Person, in this informative, readable, and original work, adds to our understanding of the complexity of the social reality of Warsaw ghetto life and death.--Jewish Book World
Prewar Poland witnessed the secularization of thousands, including Jews who assimilated, intermarried, or converted to Christianity, as well as those of Jewish descent. In 1940 all were lumped together under Nazi racial laws and forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. Based on diaries, memoirs, and interviews, the author describes the tragedy of those adrift in two worlds.--Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews