The Oneg Shabat program is organized by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Jewish Historical Institute Association in Poland as part of a public-private partnership.
August 3, 1942. The first part of the Archive has been buried hastily. Probably only five people, including Emanuel Ringelblum, knew where the treasure was hidden. The only person that survived the war was Hersz Wasser, who managed to jump out of a train heading to a death camp in 1943. It is thanks to him that the Archive was dug up on September 18, 1946.
September 18, 2017. Warsaw. Treasury Depositories: the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, together with the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute, are beginning the multi-annual Oneg Shabat Programme, aimed at keeping the memory of the Oneg Shabat group and the Ringelblum Archive alive.
The project is supported by the multimedia platform onegszabat.org, whose purpose is spreading awareness about the Emanuel Ringelblum group, and also allowing donors from all around the world to financially support the program. The collected funds will be allocated to the conservation, development and translation of the Archive.
As part of the program, the issuing of the full Ringelblum Archive, comprised of 36 volumes, paperback edition and its translation into English, will be finalized. All of the Ringelblum Archive volumes, which have been digitalized, are uploaded on the Central Judaic Library website. A key point of the Oneg Shabat project is the opening of the permanent exhibition 'What we could not shout to the world', which is dedicated to the creators of the Ringelblum Archive.
In its scope, for the first time in 71 years a broad range of viewers will see the original documents from this incredible collection. The mobile version of the Archive will be available in the world’s most important museums.
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