Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
New York : Vintage Books, 2009.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage books edition.
Description: xiii, 523 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundreds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. Samuel D. Kassow tells the tragic story of Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people. --from publisher description.
Series: Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies.
Contents:
From "Bichuch" to Warsaw -- Borochov's disciple -- History for the people -- Organizing the community: self-help and relief -- A band of comrades -- The different voices of Polish Jewry -- Traces of life and death: texts from the archive -- The tidings of job -- A historian's final mission.
Subjects:
Ringelblum, Emanuel, 1900-1944.
Oyneg Shabes (Group)
Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History.
Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
Ringelblum, Emanuel, 1900-1944.
Oyneg Shabes (Group)
Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History.
Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
ISBN:
9780307455864
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC HISTORY War WWII Holocaust Kas | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, in 2007"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.