Series:Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 6. The General Government. Testimonies and Documents

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 06, Generalne Gubernatorstwo. Relacje i dokumenty

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Keywords: Jewish Councils; Jewish Social Aid; American Joint Distribution Committee; General Government; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume concerns the fate of the Jewish population in the General Government four districts: Cracow, Lublin, Radom, and Warsaw. It includes testimonies, memoirs, personal documents and official records, such as German ordinances, reports and transcripts of the proceedings of the Jewish Councils, Jewish Social Aid and the American Joint Distribution Committee. The documents cover the period from September and October 1939 to some time after November 1942; there are also memoirs that touch upon the pre-war period.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 7. Archival Bequests

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 07. Spuścizny

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Keywords: Rachela Auerbach; Hersz Wasser; Eliasz Gutkowski; Menachem Mendel Kon; Warsaw ghetto; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume consists of materials deposited in the ARG by Emmanuel Ringelblum’s closest collaborators: writer and journalist Rachela Auerbach, lawyer and economist Hersz Wasser, teacher Eliasz Gutkowski, and the Archive’s treasurer, entrepreneur Menachem Mendel Kon. Letters, certificates and fragments of notes are testimony to the work of the Archive, the everyday life of its collaborators and through this – to the experience of Jewish intellectuals in the ghetto. The last chapter contains patents of inventors Henryk Piórnik and Wacław Kączkowski issued by the Polish and foreign patent offices.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 8. Areas Incorporated into the Reich: the Danzig-West Prussia Reich District, Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Ciechanów Governorate), the Province of Upper Silesia

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 08. Tereny wcielone do Rzeszy: Okręg Rzeszy Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie, rejencja ciechanowska, Górny Śląsk

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Danzig-West Prussia Reich District, Regierungsbezirk Zichenau; Ciechanów Governorate; Province of Upper Silesia; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume pertains to the fate of the Jews in the areas of Poland incorporated into the Reich: the Danzig-West Prussia Reich District, Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Ciechanów Governorate) and the Province of Upper Silesia. It consists mainly of the testimonies of refugees who had been forced to abandon their homes and of the persons involved in relocating Jews to the General Government. The majority of documents concerns the period from the first days of the war until February and March 1941. They illustrate mainly everyday life but also include reminiscences from before the war, sketches from the history of the given towns, or accounts of the war preparations.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 9. Areas Incorporated into the Reich: Reichsgau Wartheland

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 09. Tereny wcielone do Rzeszy: Kraj Warty

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Keywords: Koło; Kutno; Kalisz; Włocławek; Wartheland; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume pertains to the fate of the Jewish population in Wartheland (mainly Koło, Kutno, Kalisz and Włocławek), excluding the city of Lodz. The majority of testimonies concerns the period from the first days of the war until March/April 1942. They describe crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in the period of Military Administration (until October 1939), the first anti-Jewish directives of the Civil Administration (e.g. the order to create the Judenrats and the ghettoes), as well as the forced resettlement of Jews to the General Government. Many documents include recollections from the pre-war period or sketches from the history of the given cities (especially interesting for Inowrocław and Kutno).

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 10. Fate of the Lodz Jews (1939–1942)

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 10. Losy Żydów łódzkich (1939-1942)

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Keywords: Lodz; Lodz ghetto; Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume contains the documents of the fates of the Lodz Jews in the years 1939–1942, mainly reports, memoirs and letters but also poetry and official announcements. The first part of the volume presents the situation from the last days of August 1939 until the establishment of the ghetto in February 1940. The second part includes the texts on the living conditions in the ghetto. A significant part are announcements and decrees issued by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski completed by the description of the official ghetto currency, official prints, and the calendar for the year 1942 published in the ghetto.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 11. People and Works of Oneg Shabbat

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 11. Ludzie i prace "Oneg Szabat"

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Oneg Shabbat; research activity of Oneg Shabbat; reports of Oneg Shabbat; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume pertains directly to the activities of Oneg Shabbat: the organization itself, its members, its research and archival works There are drafts, schemes and questionnaires used to collect data destined to be used in the uncompleted monograph Two-and-a-half years. Some materials concern underground press services of Oneg Shabbat: bulletins and “Wiadomości ARG” [ARG Information]). There are also the most important documents of Oneg Shabbat dealing with the annihilation of Jews: reports, based on witness testimonies and official files collected in ARG, which were smuggled out of the ghetto and abroad, to the Polish government-in-exile and to the Allies.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 12. The Warsaw Jewish Council (1939–1943)

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 12. Rada Żydowska w Warszawie (1939-1943)

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Keywords: Warsaw Jewish Council; Großaktion; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume includes documents issued by the Warsaw Jewish Council, as well as those sent thereto. There are also the German documents – mainly of a normative nature. The material is supplemented by the ephemera issued by the Jewish Council (such as an invitation to an artistic event or food coupons) and other institutions (a blank identity card form, a tram ticket issued by the Municipal Board). The volume is divided into two parts: before and after July 22, 1942 (Großaktion – the beginning of deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp). Part one documents the struggle for survival of the Jewish community, while part two illustrates the circumstances of the deaths of the Warsaw ghetto inhabitants.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 13. The Last Stage of Resettlement Is Death

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 13. Ostatnim etapem przesiedlenia jest śmierć. Pomiechówek, Chełmno nad Nerem, Treblinka

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Keywords: Pomiechówek; Cehłmno nad Nerem; Treblinka II; resettlement; extermination camps; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The first part of the volume contains documents which describe the six-week detention of around 4,000 Jews in Pomiechówek, north of Warsaw, in 1941. The documents are: individual testimonies, minutes of interviews with prisoners, and a study based on interviews, supplemented by a list of people murdered or deceased in the camp. The second part concerns the extermination centres in Chełmno nad Nerem and Treblinka II, including: testimonies of refugees from the camps; a report based on the testimonies; letters that warn of the oncoming Holocaust; testimonies of people who had obtained first-hand knowledge from the refugees; an article published in an underground periodical and sketches of the Treblinka camp.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 14. The Hersch Wasser Collection

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 14. Kolekcja Hersza Wassera

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Keywords: Hersch Wasser; Institute of Jewish Research in New York; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The largest collection of the documents from the Ringelblum Archive housed outside the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute. After the Second World War it was handed over to YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in New York by Hersch Wasser, secretary of Oneg Shabbat. The first chapter is the diary of Hersch Wasser. Chapters 2 to 7 deal with various aspects of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Chapter 8 is dedicated to Jewish communities outside Warsaw. Chapter 9 contains information on forced labor camps. Chapter 10 consists of personal documents of Hersch Wasser.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 15. September 1939 and POW Camps. Kalisz Letters. Płock Letters

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 15. Wrzesień 1939. Listy kaliskie. Listy płockie

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Keywords: September 1939; Jewish soldiers; letters; Kalisz; Płock; Ringelblum Archive, Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume consists of three very different parts. The first part includes documents related to the German aggression against Poland in 1939. They describe the first months of the war, mostly warfare, but focus is also given to the fate of Jewish soldiers – POWs. The second part contains private and official correspondence from and to the Jews of Kalisz sent between August 16, 1939 and December 31, 1941 from the Warthegau, the General Government, and from abroad. The third part contains the letters sent between February and June 1941 by the Jews deported in early 1941 from Płock to the General Government.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 17. The Press of the Warsaw Ghetto: Poale’ Zion Left and Poale’ Zion Right

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 17. Prasa getta warszawskiego: Poalej Syjon Lewica i Poalej Syjon Prawica

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Keywords: Poale’ Zion Left; Poale’ Zion Right; press of the Warsaw Ghetto; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume contains the clandestine publications of Poale’ Zion Left and Poale’ Zion Right. This press almost entirely belongs to the propaganda-political type of publications. It covers three basic segments: war communications, texts concerning the present situation of the Jewish population and historical-ideological essays. All data are interpreted most often through the socialist-Zionist doctrine. The most detailed are articles on the Warsaw Ghetto. However the majority of space was devoted to reports from Palestine and visions of the post-war Jewish future. There are also extensive texts on Jewish and universal history and culture.

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Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 19. Prasa getta warszawskiego: Hechaluc-Dror i Gordonia

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 19. Prasa getta warszawskiego: Hechaluc-Dror i Gordonia

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Keywords: Hechalutz; Dror; Gordonia; press of the Warsaw Ghetto; Ringelblum Archive, Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume contains the underground press published by Hechalutz-Dror and Gordonia, youth organizations politically affiliated with the Labor Zionism and belonging to the Hechalutz movement which trained pioneers for work in agricultural collective farms in Palestine. Publishing the underground press was a part of wide clandestine activity of the two organizations in the Warsaw ghetto. Their primary objective was to undertake the educational and formative activities addressed to the youth, including the reinstatement of the agricultural training farms. Education and training were among the most important subjects the press dealt with.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 20. The Press of the Warsaw Ghetto: the Right-Wing Groups

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 20. Prasa getta warszawskiego: ugrupowania prawicowe

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Keywords: the right-wing groups in the ghetto; press of the Warsaw Ghetto; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

This volume consists of press materials issued probably from 1941 (or 1940) until 1943 by the right-wing circles: Agudat Israel, Betar (revisionists), General Zionists, and the so-called assimilators associated with the group Żagiew. In general their authors distanced themselves from leftist views but each community focused on the problems most important to them. For Agudat Israel, these were religious issues; for Betar – those related to the life and ideology of Vladimir Jabotinsky; for General Zionists – future life in Palestine and the current problems of education and upbringing; for Żagiew – the on-going struggle against the occupier and the post-war life in the restored Poland.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 23. The Diaries from the Warsaw Ghetto

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 23. Dzienniki z getta warszawskiego

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Keywords: Abraham Lewin; Jechiel Górny; Eliasz Gutkowski; Menachem Mendel Kohn; diaries, Warsaw ghetto; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume contains the first complete edition of the diary of Abraham Lewin and the collection of other diaries and testimonies from the Warsaw ghetto. Abraham Lewin was a member of the executive board of Oneg Shabbat. His diary covers the period from April 1942 to January 1943 and is one of the most important documents dealing with history of the Warsaw ghetto, in particular with the great deportation of July–September 1942. Most of the other testimonies were written in 1941 and 1942. While some authors are anonymous, others are well-known associates of Oneg Shabbat, including Jechiel Górny, Eliasz Gutkowski, Menachem Mendel Kohn, Mordechaj Szwarcbard, and Nechemiasz Tytelman.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 24. Labour Camps

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 24. Obozy pracy przymusowej

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Keywords: Bełżec; Chełm; Włodawa; Kampinos; Wilga; Łowicz; Drewnica; labour camps; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

This volume illustrates the working and living conditions of the Jewish forced labourers in the labour camps. The testimonies refer mainly to the years 1940–1942 and to the places where Warsaw Jews worked: Bełżec, Chełm–Włodawa, Kampinos, Wilga, Łowicz and Drewnica. Part one of the volume features documents about the early stages of staying in the camps (roundups, medical examination before deportation to the camps, etc.) or general issues, while part two contains descriptions of individual camps. The testimonies are completed by some official German and Jewish documents.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 28. Memoirs of Cwi Pryłucki (1905–1939)

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 28. Cwi Pryłucki. Wspomnienia (1905-1939)

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Keywords: Cwi Pryłucki; memoirs; Warsaw ghetto; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The volume consists of a single document – a memoir of Cwi Pryłucki, dictated by the author to his daughters in the Warsaw ghetto. The twelve notebooks that survived in ARG cover the period 1905–1912. Cwi Pryłucki was a supporter of the Zionist movement and co-worker of the Hebrew press: the editor of the first Warsaw Jewish daily “Der Weg”, a co-editor of the newspaper “Unser Leben” and an editor-in-chief of the daily “Der Moment”. In his memoirs he mentions a number of figures important to the history of Jews in Eastern Europe and Eretz Israel before 1939.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 33. Warsaw Ghetto part 1

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 33. Getto warszawskie, cz. I

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Keywords: Warsaw ghetto; daily life in ghetto; education in ghetto; typhus; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The two-part collection of materials on life in the Warsaw ghetto includes the documents issued by official structures, German and Jewish, as well as the documents of the Jewish underground. The first part includes the following chapters: Images of the ghetto (social conditions and daily life); Education (the fate of Jewish children and youth, and schooling under the German occupation); Religious life (texts deriving mostly from Jewish orthodox circles); Refugees and deportees; Struggle with typhus; Letters (both sent to and received in the ghetto); Persecution and Destruction.

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The Ringelblum Archive. Volumen 34. Warsaw Ghetto. Part 2

Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, tom 34. Getto warszawskie, cz. II

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Keywords: Warsaw ghetto; economics in ghetto; House Committees in ghetto; Jewish Order Police; The Thirteen in ghetto; Ringelblum Archive; Holocaust; history of Jews; World War II

The two-part collection of materials on life in the Warsaw ghetto includes the documents issued by official structures, German and Jewish, as well as the documents of the Jewish underground. The second part is divided into the following chapters: Statistics (data covering various domains of life of the Jewish population); Economics; Shops; Forced labour; House Committees (playing an important role in ghetto self-government); Political and civic organisations and the underground (e.g. resistance movement, including preparations for the uprising); Jewish Order Police; “The Thirteen” (German secret service unit in the ghetto).

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