Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive |
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| Author:
| Kassow, Samuel D. |
| Series title: | The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-04105-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2018 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | AUD $22.99 |
Book Description:
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1. This book tells the dramatic story of the clandestine collection of documents about Jewish life in the Warsaw ghetto, their burial in tins and milk cans, and their retrieval after World War II.
2. This second editon is published now, with a new forward, to be timed with the release of a documentary movie about these documents. The film was produced with imput by the daughter of the author and the forward includes stills from the movie.
3. The focus of the work is on...
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1. This book tells the dramatic story of the clandestine collection of documents about Jewish life in the Warsaw ghetto, their burial in tins and milk cans, and their retrieval after World War II.
2. This second editon is published now, with a new forward, to be timed with the release of a documentary movie about these documents. The film was produced with imput by the daughter of the author and the forward includes stills from the movie.
3. The focus of the work is on how humanitarian and scholarly activities were carried on as acts of civil resistance.
4. The author himself is a compelling researcher, born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, a child of Holocaust survivors.