The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive

by Shapiro, Robert Moses; Epsztein, Tadeusz; Kassow, Samuel D.

• ISBN13: 9780253353276
• ISBN10: 0253353270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

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 catalogue 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Translator's Preface

Introduction

Structure and Organization of the Ringelblum Archive and Its Catalog

Contents of the Inventory: Ringelblum I

Ringelblum II

List of Abbreviations

List Abbreviations for Identifying Handwriting in the Inventory of the Ringelblum Archive Inventory

Catalog of Ringelblum I

Catalog of Ringelblum II

Concordances: Call Numbers in Ringelblum I: New Call Numbers = Old Call Numbers

Call Numbers in Ringelblum I: Old Call Number = New Call Numbers

Call Numbers in Ringelblum I: Oldest Call Numbers (pre1955) = New Call Numbers

Call Numbers in Ringelblum II: New Call Numbers = Old Call Numbers

Call Numbers in Ringelblum II: Old Call Numbers = New Call Numbers

List of Liquidated Archival Units

Index of Names Ringelblum I

Index of Names Ringelblum II

Index of Places Ringelblum I

Index of Places Ringelblum II

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