July 29, 1942. A week has passed since the beginning of the great deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto. Every day 5,000-10,000 Jews are transported from the Umschlagplatz to the gas chambers in Treblinka. With the formation of the Jewish Combat Organization, an armed resistance movement slowly begins
119th anniversary of Rachela Auerbach’s birth
Teacher, social and political activist, second secretary of the Ringelblum Archive, member of the Oneg Shabbat leadership. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he helped fellow Jews, despite difficulties with supporting his own wife and son. Co-edited accounts by defectors from the Chełmno nad Nerem and Sobibór extermination camps
One of Emanuel Ringelblum’s closest associates. His organizational skills were essential for the ‘Two and a half years of war’ – a great historical project which recorded the life of Polish Jews under German occupation
Jewish photographer, writer and columnist – murdered on 7 July 1941 during pogrom in Tarnopol. Emanuel Ringelblum dedicated one of his notes from the bunker to him