ABSTRACT
The Warsaw ghetto differed from the ghetto in Lodz in that there was an underground political and cultural life. It was in the Warsaw ghetto that a report documenting the extermination of Poland’s Jews saw the light of day and was delivered by the Polish underground resistance to the Polish government-in-exile in London. In the Warsaw ghetto, medical research was carried out on the effects of hunger on the human body. Jewish physicians, as well as Polish volunteer co-workers, observed a group of seventy adults and forty children. Two committed suicide, one perished in the ghetto uprising, another in the gas chambers. The manuscripts containing the results of the research were smuggled out of the ghetto by Prof. Witold Orlowski, who handed them over to his son Tadeusz Orlowski, who later became a famous transplant surgeon. The wall isolating the Warsaw ghetto was so porous that in certain circumstances, it was possible to escape.
