
Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Samuel D. Kassow(Author)
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 6. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-307-45586-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. Impeccably researched and thoroughly compelling, Samuel D. Kassow's Who Will Write Our History? tells the tragic story of Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
24 PP B&W
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
881 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-307-45586-4 (9780307455864)
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Person
Samuel D. Kassow