Oyneg Shabes group

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The Oyneg Shabes group was a clandestine collective of Jewish scholars, writers, and activists in the Warsaw Ghetto that documented daily life and Nazi atrocities, creating one of the most important historical records of the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish resistance organization
clandestine archival group
historical documentation project
activeDuring Holocaust NERFINISHED
World War II
alsoKnownAs Oneg Shabbat NERFINISHED
Ringelblum Archive group NERFINISHED
archiveBuriedAt Warsaw Ghetto NERFINISHED
archiveDiscovery 1946
1950
archiveHiddenIn metal boxes
milk cans
archivesKnownAs Ringelblum Archive NERFINISHED
country German-occupied Poland
documented Nazi policies toward Jews in occupied Poland
cultural life in the Warsaw Ghetto
deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto
religious life in the Warsaw Ghetto
social welfare activities in the Warsaw Ghetto
starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
endTime 1943
foundedBy Emanuel Ringelblum NERFINISHED
hasMember Eliyahu Gutkowski NERFINISHED
Emanuel Ringelblum NERFINISHED
Hersh Wasser NERFINISHED
Israel Lichtenstein NERFINISHED
Jewish activists
Jewish scholars
Jewish writers
Rachel Auerbach NERFINISHED
languageOfWork Hebrew
Polish
Yiddish
location Warsaw Ghetto NERFINISHED
namedAfter Oneg Shabbat (Sabbath joy) NERFINISHED
operatedIn Warsaw NERFINISHED
opposedBy Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
purpose document Nazi atrocities
document daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto
preserve evidence for future historical research
provide documentation for possible postwar trials
riskLevel punishable by death
significance one of the most important historical records of the Holocaust
primary source on life and death in the Warsaw Ghetto
startTime 1940
workIncluded German decrees
diaries
drawings
essays
letters
photographs
posters
reports
surveys
underground newspapers

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Ringelblum Archive (Oyneg Shabes Archive) organizer Oyneg Shabes group
subject surface form: Ringelblum Archive