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Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour
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 Several volumes of Emanuel Ringelblum's Warsaw Ghetto diary are discovered in Warsaw. Ringelblum was a professional historian and social worker. Trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto, he documented events around him and created an archive unit known as “Oneg Shabbat”, which gathered extensive materials and produced the most complete surviving record of the life and death of Poland’s Jews under the Nazis. Such documentation would have lead to the volunteers' execution if they had been found out. When later offered a chance to escape, Ringelblum choose to stay in the Ghetto and continue documenting the events.
Ringelblum hid the archival materials to ensure their survival. He himself survived the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and later escaped from a German labor camp, but was eventually discovered and murdered with his family on March 7, 1944.
Ten metal boxes hidden by Ringelblum in the cellar of a ruined house at 68 Nowolipki Street in Warsaw were discovered in 1950. A further three metal milk jugs with documents inside were found nearby in 1950.
For a translated sample of Ringelblum’s diary, go to:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/ringleblum.html |
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