Who Will Write Our History documents the history of the clandestine group Oyneg Shabes and the secret archive of Europe's largest ghetto. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, members of Oyneg Shabes documented life in the Warsaw Ghetto, the diversity and culture of the Jewish community, their resistance and resilience, and the crimes of individual German occupiers and the Nazis as a whole. In 1942 and 1943, Oyneg Shabes carefully buried tin boxes and milk cans filled with photographs, objects, and thousands of pages of writings in three locations in the ghetto. Most members of Oyneg Shabes did not survive the Holocaust, Ringelblum included. Those who did quickly went to work to locate the Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum archive in the rubble that was Warsaw. They unearthed the first cache in 1946, and in 1950 Polish construction workers chanced upon the second; the third remains to be found. Although the elements had rendered many documents illegible and ruined photographs, the surviving archive now tells the story of the suffering, life, culture, and resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto from the perspective of the Jewish community.
Please watch Who Will Write Our History between now and February 5th (prior to our meeting at Noon), using this link: https://gooddocs.net/apps/downloads/orders/outreach%2540gooddocs.net/35042601 Note: The documentary is free to screen until Feb. 5th.
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