- Jews, Fiction, Jewish ghettos, World War, 1939-1945
Follows the World War II tale of Jewish ghetto director Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who in an ambitious effort to render the ghetto an invaluable industrial complex makes compromises that have extraordinary consequences.
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About the book
- Author
- Steve Sem-Sandberg
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 671
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Faber and Faber Ltd
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571259205
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