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| | National Yiddish Book Center - Historian Samuel Kassow on the Hidden Story of the Warsaw Ghetto |
 | | In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Professor Kassow will lecture on Emmanuel Ringelblum, historian and organizer of the Oyneg Shabbos archives, one of the most comprehensive chronicles of life in Poland under Nazi occupation. |
 | | The archive was staffed by a secret group of writers, historians, rabbis, teachers, and welfare workers, all living in the ghetto, whose goal was to document and preserve a record of the Jewish experience under Nazi occupation, as well as the changes taking place within the entire Polish community. |
 | | As Ringelblum wrote, the archive was “a single entity, a brotherhood where all help each other and strive to achieve a common goal.” These men and women gathered photographs, artwork, children’s school essays, reports on deportation and murders, and other materials, from September 1939 until January 1943. |
| www.yiddishbookcenter.org /story.php?n=10096 (396 words) |
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