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112 years ago, Henryka Łazowertówna was born – a poet, social activist, member of the Oneg Shabbat group. For the Ringelblum Archive, she wrote down accounts of Jewish refugees struggling with poverty and hunger. She wrote one of the most famous works from the Warsaw Ghetto – the poem “The Little Smuggler”.

45 lat temu, 31 maja 1976 r. w Izraelu zmarła Rachela Auerbach, dziennikarka i pisarska, jedna z zaledwie trojga członków grupy Oneg Szabat, którym udało się przeżyć wojnę. Robiła wszystko, aby odnaleźć zakopane pod gruzami Warszawy Archiwum Ringelbluma. Po wojnie zeznawała w procesie Adolfa Eichmanna i starała się o to, by wspomnienia świadków Holokaustu była nagrywane, a nie jedynie – zapisywane. Przed śmiercią zdążyła przygotować dwie książki.

On May 1, 1942, a German film crew came to the Warsaw ghetto to prepare an anti-Jewish propaganda film. It was entitled “Das Ghetto”. Read how the members of the Oneg Shabbat group saw these events.

A teacher, social worker, a man of letters – Israel Lichtensztajn was one of the key figures of the Oneg Shabbat group. Together with Dawid Graber and Nachum Grzywacz, he hid from the Germans the first two parts of the Ringelblum Archive, containing over 35,000 pages of materials, in the basement at 68 Nowolipki Street. He died in the first days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943.

On April 19, 1943, the Germans entered the Warsaw ghetto. The insurgents, mostly young people from the Jewish Fighting Organization and the Jewish Military Union, opened fire. The creator of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum, witnessed the preparations and fights.