What was the destiny of Emanuel Ringelblum? Listen to the podcast

Written by: Przemysław Batorski
We are excited to invite you to listen to the premiere Oneg Szabat Podcast! The first episode ‘The destiny of Emanuel Ringelblum’ is available now on your podcast platform.
os_podcast_2020.jpg

Without Emanuel Ringelblum, the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto would never have existed. The creator of a unique initiative of civil resistance movement in occupied Europe is the protagonist of the first in a series of podcasts of the Oneg Szabat program.

Listen to the story of the extraordinary life of a historian, activist, educator, social worker and – most importantly – the leader of the Oneg Szabat Group, established in the Warsaw Ghetto in the fall of 1940 in order to document the life of Polish Jews under German occupation.

Today, Emanuel Ringelblum is also the patron of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. That is why we talked about him with the director of the Institute, professor Paweł Śpiewak:

Ringelblum Archive is the archive written by the Jews about the Jews. People in the ghetto didn’t know what was the Wannsee Conference, they didn’t have the knowledge of different German decisions, but they felt the result of their decisions on their backs, on their shoulders.

śpiewak_zdjęcie_przed_2020_os.jpg [47.72 KB]
Prof. Paweł Śpiewak, JHI Director (2011-2020)

Who was Emanuel Ringelblum and what was his destiny? 

Fin the answer on

_____

Sources we have used in the episode ‘The destiny of Emanuel Ringelblum’:

Samuel D. Kassow, Kto napisze naszą historię? [Who will write our history?], transl. by Grażyna Waluga, Olga Zienkiewicz, JHI, Warsaw 2017

https://archives.jdc.org/exhibits/in-memoriam/emanuel-ringelblum/

Listy Emanuela Ringelbluma [Emanuel Ringelblum’s Letters], ed. by Israel Gutman, in: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i materiały, v.1, Warsaw 2005

 

 

OS_belka.jpg [57.58 KB]

koret_logo.jpg [20.68 KB]

Przemysław Batorski   JHI Web Editor
< Back to list of articles

More articles from this category

bresław_0.jpg
03.09.2019
He couldn’t bear the tragedy of the Ghetto. Szmuel Bresław
Szmul (Szmuel) Bresław was a Hashomer Hatzair activist, as well as a contributor and an editor of nearly all periodicals published by this organization in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, he was invited by Emanuel Ringelblum to cooperate with Oneg Shabbat. A large collection of bulletins from radio monitoring was preserved in the Archive. He has also contributed a few of his own writings, such as an interview with Irena Adamowicz about Polish-Jewish relations, Henryk Gotland’s biography, a study – „The housing officer” and one report, „The disinfection column”. He was killed on 3 September 1942, after he wielded a knife against an armed German.
csm_nsdoku_ringelblum.jpg
23.06.2023
More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto | exhibition
From June 29, 2023, to January 7, 2024, the National Socialism Documentation Center in Munich will host the exhibition "More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto", organized in cooperation with the Jewish Historical Institute.
ostrowska_1.jpg
05.09.2019
Bread has a golden color. Salomea Ostrowska
We can gather information about Salomea Ostrowska only indirectly, by studying her writings for Oneg Shabbat. Thanks to her work at the Quarantine Service at 109/111 Leszno street, she could have delivered a description of the institution’s functioning to the Ringelblum Archive. On the basis of 18 conversations with former inmates of the Pomiechówek camp for displaced persons, she wrote an essay – „Pomiechówek, the death camp”. Her date and place of death remain unknown.
More articles >