Between March/April 1942 and July the same year, the Oneg Shabbat group published fifteen bulletins for the Jewish and Polish underground press.
Anna Majchrowska
An engineer, managed a wood workshop in the Warsaw Ghetto – one of the forced labor companies working for the German army. Supported the Oneg Shabbat group and the Jewish Social Self-Help. During the Great Deportation to the Treblinka death camp, he offered shelter to intellectuals in his factory. During an attempt to escape occupied Poland, he fell prey to a Gestapo conspiracy.
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
Szmuel Szajnkinder was a footballer and sports journalist. In 1939, he participated in the defense of Warsaw, and later worked at the Jewish Social Self-Help Public Kitchen Central, where he met Emanuel Ringelblum
Szwarcbard was one of the most hard-working members of Oneg Shabbat. His manuscripts appear in about 170 documents in the Archive. He left his own writings and a selection of copies of other documents, including notes by Emanuel Ringelblum.
On February 1942 Bluma Wasser wrote down Szlama Ber Winer's detailed testimony of mass extermination of people in gas vans in Chelmno
The Germans had planned the beginning of the second stage of liquidation of the ghetto for 18 January 1943. The goal was to deport about 8,000 people to Treblinka.