Jews in Nazi-oppupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing
threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded
ghetto away from the non- Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos,
a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized
Jews. Unwilling to integrate into the Jewish community and unable to
merge with the Polish one, they formed a group of their own, remaining
in a state of suspension throughout the interwar period. In 1940, with the
closure of the Jewish Residential Quarter in Warsaw,...