On April 19, 1943, perhaps the most heroic and at the same time tragic page in the history of the Jewish people began - the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. A book by the Leningrad scholar-historian Valentin Mikhailovich Alekseev (1924–1994), dedicated to the history of the Warsaw ghetto and the uprising its inhabitants against the Nazis, was written in the second half of the 1960s. It was supposed to appear in the Nauka publishing house, but after the collapse of Khrushchev’s “thaw”, the book on the “inconvenient” topic of the history of the Holocaust never saw its reader. However, even many years later, this story about the tragedy of the Warsaw ghetto is read without any discount for the time of writing . Without falling into pathos or sentimentality, the author paints a picture of the life and death of a half-city, half-prison created by the Nazis during 1940 in the center of Europe with a population of 500 thousand people. Scientific rigor and objectivity only emphasize the significance for us of these stunning human documents, stories of suffering and resistance. On May 16, SS General Jürgen Stroop proudly reported to Berlin: “The Warsaw ghetto no longer exists.”