Oyneg Shabes Archive

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The Oyneg Shabes Archive was a clandestine collection of documents and testimonies created in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II to preserve evidence of Jewish life and Nazi atrocities for future generations.

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instanceOf Holocaust-era documentation project
clandestine archive
historical archive
archives children’s drawings
cultural event programs
diaries
essays
food and health surveys
letters
official documents
photographs
religious life documentation
reports on Treblinka extermination camp
reports on deportations
reports on mass shootings
statistical reports
surveys
testimonies
underground press
buriedAt Nowolipki 68, Warsaw
Sienna 34, Warsaw NERFINISHED
Świętojerska Street area, Warsaw NERFINISHED
buriedUnder buildings in the Warsaw Ghetto
collectionMethod clandestine documentation
covert copying of German documents
secretly gathered testimonies
systematic questionnaires
country Poland
documentedEvent Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 NERFINISHED
Jewish resistance activities
conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto
cultural life in the Warsaw Ghetto
forced labor in the Warsaw Ghetto
religious life in the Warsaw Ghetto
starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
underground education in the Warsaw Ghetto
documentedIn "Who Will Write Our History" NERFINISHED
endTime 1943
etymology name derives from Hebrew/Yiddish term for "Sabbath delight"
foundedBy Emanuel Ringelblum NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Ringelblum Archive NERFINISHED
hasContributor Abraham Lewin NERFINISHED
Chaim Kaplan NERFINISHED
Dawid Graber NERFINISHED
Eliyahu Gutkowski NERFINISHED
Hersh Wasser NERFINISHED
Israel Lichtenstein NERFINISHED
Menachem Kon NERFINISHED
Peretz Opoczynski NERFINISHED
Rachel Auerbach NERFINISHED
Shmuel Winter NERFINISHED
hasFounder Emanuel Ringelblum NERFINISHED
hasLeader Emanuel Ringelblum NERFINISHED
hasMember Jewish intellectuals in the Warsaw Ghetto
rabbis in the Warsaw Ghetto
social workers in the Warsaw Ghetto
teachers in the Warsaw Ghetto
writers in the Warsaw Ghetto
hasSignificance evidence used in postwar war crimes trials
major primary source on life in the Warsaw Ghetto
one of the most important sources on the Holocaust in Poland
hiddenIn metal boxes
milk cans
language German
Hebrew
Polish
Yiddish
locatedIn German-occupied Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw Ghetto NERFINISHED
materialHeldAt Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw NERFINISHED
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum NERFINISHED
Yad Vashem NERFINISHED
namedAfter Oyneg Shabes group NERFINISHED
operatedAs secret documentation center
underground research institute
operatedDuring Holocaust NERFINISHED
World War II NERFINISHED
partiallyDestroyedBy destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto
purpose document Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto
document Nazi atrocities
preserve evidence for future generations
provide material for future historical research
recognizedBy UNESCO Memory of the World Register NERFINISHED
significantEvent first cache discovered in 1946
second cache discovered in 1950
third cache remains undiscovered
startTime 1940
subjectOf book "Who Will Write Our History" by Samuel D. Kassow
documentary film "Who Will Write Our History" NERFINISHED
numerous scholarly studies on the Warsaw Ghetto
UNESCOListingYear 1999

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Emanuel Ringelblum founded Oyneg Shabes Archive
this entity surface form: Oyneg Shabes archive
Ringelblum Archive (Oyneg Shabes Archive) hasAlias Oyneg Shabes Archive
subject surface form: Ringelblum Archive
Emanuel Ringelblum notableWork Oyneg Shabes Archive
this entity surface form: Oyneg Shabes archive