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V etoy knige rasskazyvaetsya o evreyskom getto, sozdannom nacistami v pol'skom gorode Lodz', o Mordehae Haime Rumkovskom, kotoryy vozglavlyal yudenrat, organ evreyskogo yakoby samoupravleniya getto, i o povsednevnoy zhizni v getto. Rumkovskiy byl krayne protivorechivoy figuroy — "otec getto", snachala otvechavshiy za vse, potom lishivshiysya vsyakoy vozmozhnosti vliyat' na sobytiya, kaznivshiy i milovavshiy, stroivshiy shkoly i priyuty i podavlyavshiy zabastovki, kotorogo mnogie schitayut predatelem i slepym orudiem v rukah nemcev, no kotoryy razdelil s zhitelyami getto ih sud'bu do konca, byl deportirovan v Osvencim i pogib so vsey sem'ey. Eto roman o zhizni v obnesennyh kolyuchey provolokoy rayonah na glazah u vsego goroda, o predpisannoy nemcami mertvyaschey discipline, ob unosyaschem zhizni rabskom trude, holode, golodnyh smertyah — i o sytoy, polnoy svetskih razvlecheniy zhizni elity getto.