The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide - Hardcover

 
9780253353276: The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253353270 ISBN 13: 9780253353276
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive was clandestinely compiled between 1940 and 1942 under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum. Members of the secret Oyneg Shabes organization gathered thousands of testimonies from natives of Warsaw and refugees from hundreds of other localities, creating a documentary record of the wartime fate of Polish Jewry. Now housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the archive comprises some 35,000 pages, including documents, materials from the underground press, photographs, memoirs, belles lettres, and much more. This first comprehensive description of its contents is meticulously indexed to facilitate location of documents and information. By aiding access to this unique archival treasure, the catalog and guide advance study of the daily lives, struggles, and sufferings of Polish Jews at a crucial time and place in the history of the Holocaust.

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About the Author

Robert Moses Shapiro is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Tadeusz Epsztein is a longtime associate of the Polish Academy of Science's Institute of History and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Samuel D. Kassow is Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253353270
ISBN 13 
9780253353276
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
539
Editor
Shapiro Robert Moses, Epsztein Tadeusz