Who will write our history? : Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive /

Primarily, this is a study of the Oyneg Shabes Archive--the men who developed it, the documents it contained, the way it was preserved, and its recovery after the war. Secondarily, it is about the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto, and Emanuel Ringelblum, the man who initiated and amassed the archive. After the occupation of Poland, even before Nazi anti-Jewish policy had crystallized, historian Ringelblum decided to amass an archive that would document Jewish life in Warsaw during the war. As the Nazi annihilation policy became more evident and the transport to Treblinka began, the accumulating archive assumed a new significance. Once the ghetto was emptied and no hope was left for the survival of Warsaw Jews, it was decided to bury the archive. Ringelblum did not survive the war. The archive, buried in milk cans and partly damaged, survived the cataclysm and was recovered in 1946. Trinity College professor Kassow's work is well researched, written, and documented. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. A. Ezergailis Ithaca College