For seventy years, employees of the Jewish Historical Institute have been leaning over the documents left by the Oneg Shabbat group. They protect them from destruction; compile and make them available to researchers.
A year ago, on the anniversary of the discovery of the first portion of the Ringelblum Archive, the Jewish Historical Institute along with the Association of Jewish Historical Institute in Poland established the ONEG SZABAT PROGRAM. The multi-annual programme of activities aimed at making the documents of the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archive available to the world, disseminating testimonies gathered by Emanuel Ringelblum and commemorating members of the Oneg Shabbat group.
One of the first tasks of the ONEG SZABAT PROGRAM was to make the documents of the Ringelblum Archive available to the public. Today, anyone can browse the digitalised material at www.delet.jhi.pl, reach for one of thirty-eight volumes of the Full edition of the Ringelblum Archive or see the original documents at the exhibition - What we couldn’t shout out to the world.
I encourage those who wish to no more on the creation, concealing and discovery of the Archive, as well as learn the fates of its creators to proceed to www.onegszabat.org or read the book by Samuel Kassow - Who will write our story? Hidden Archive of Emanuel Ringelblum.
Jolanta Hercog, JHI
(Jewish Historical Institute)
Bibliography:
S. Kassow, “Who will write our story?”, JHI, Warsaw 2017
“The Institute. 70 years history of the JHI in source documents”, selected and compiled by H. Datner, O. Pieńkowska, JHI, Warsaw 2017
www.delet.jhi.pl