The title was taken from the testament left by Dawid Graber, who belonged to a group of people hiding the first part of the Archive.
were superimposed on the next table: one relating to the events of WW2 and the other to the activity of Oneg sHABBAT.
Separate part of the exhibition has been devoted to the history of the group from the moment of hiding the materials until today. It presents documents describing the effort connected with hiding the Archive, the moment of digging it out as well as next stages of subsequent activities aimed at protecting, cataloguing, analysing and editing the documents, up to the moment when the Archive has been inscribed on “Memory of the World” UNESCO register in 1999. Particular attention was devoted to showing physical side of the documentation (damages, fading ink etc.) as well as the methods of reconstructing damaged text, such as comparing subsequent copies of a document or the use of hyperspectral imaging. All volumes of the full edition of Ringelblum Archive published so far have also been presented.
The title of the exhibition was taken from the testament left by Dawid Graber, who belonged to a group of people hiding the first part of the Archive. He wrote: “What we were unable to shout out to the world, we buried in the ground”. Dawid Graber was 19, and while hiding in a hurry subsequent parts of the material, he had one hope: „that future generations will recall our suffering and pain that during the fall, there were also people who had the courage to do this work”.
The mission of the Institute and the Association of the JHI in Poland – as the depositaries of Ringelblum Archive, which belongs not only to the Jewish nation, but constitutes the “memory of the world” – is to make it publicly available, to pass it on not only to the next generations, but first – to the current generation. For this reason, the works on a travelling exhibition are now being carried out so that it can be made available in the most important museums all over the world.
Everybody should visit Jewish Historical Institute at ul. Tłomackie 3/5. The place where the Oneg Shabbat group met. The building bearing the traces of the Great Synagogue fire. The space which, since mid-November, opens with the inscription in Polish, Jewish and English: What we were unable to shout out to the world…
The exhibition is one of the key elements of the Oneg Shabbat Program, realized by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland within a public-private partnership. The goal of the program is to commemorate and popularize the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto (the Ringelblum Archive) and to commemorate the members of the Oneg Shabbat group.
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