It is assumed that such scientific events should take place over one day, and their central subject should involve research issues or archival objects most characteristic of those units organising the conference. In the case of the Jewish Historical Institute, it could not have been anything other than the Warsaw Ghetto Conspiracy Archive, also known as the Ringelblum Archive. The title of the conference indicated that it would concern research conducted on documents derived from the collection, and conservation techniques applied to individual parts of the collection.
The meeting was attended by ten experts from various research centres and two representatives of the Collections Digitalisation Department of JHI. The speakers comprised of professors, doctorates and PhD students representing such research and scientific centres as the Polish Academy of Sciences, Tre University Rome, University of Leicester, University of Leeds, University of British Columbia, Indiana University Bloomington and the Jewish Historical Institute. In addition to Poland, other countries represented included the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Italy. The conference was open to the public so that all interested persons could familiarise themselves with the presented lectures. In addition to information about the conference on social media, the organisers also sent letters of invitation to museums, as well as research and scientific centres across the country.
Presentations were divided into three thematic panels: daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto and the specificity of the conditions prevailing within; material analysis of the historical source, namely the Ringelblum Archive; and the new project of the Jewish Historical Institute - the Encyclopaedia of the Warsaw Ghetto. The topics were presented in this order by the speakers.
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