EDITORIAL
"Who will write our story" is a moving, well-made documentary, dedicated to the history of the Oneg Shabbat group. Emanuel Ringelblum and his colleagues created the underground archive of the Warsaw ghetto. As director Roberta Grossman says, they were "giants of spiritual resistance - people who risked their lives to collect and record so that the truth would survive even if they did not". In Memoria we publish an interview with Roberta Grossman.
The history of the Holocaust is told from a completely different perspective by a new exhibition of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., "Americans and the Holocaust” dispels the myth that Americans had little access to information about the threat of Nazism, including the persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews.
In "Memoria" we also write about the "Give them a Face" project of Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen, Belgium, which aims to show faces of each of over 25,000 people deported from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück and Vittel. All the time, further photographs appear on the walls of this Memorial Site.
We also recommend the personal reflection of Dean Mears who visited the Auschwitz Memorial as part of the Chelsea London football club project "Say NO to antisemitism". We are write about a new edition of the memoirs of the former prisoner of the Majdanek concentration camp Jerzy Kwiatkowski, and about buttons that commemorate the children - victims of the Holocaust.
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Paweł Sawicki, Redaktor Naczelny