[On the Holocaust] Emanuel Ringleblum and the Warsaw Ghetto's Secret Archive
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In November, 1940, the German occupiers of Warsaw forced nearly 400,000 Jews into 1.3 square miles of land, then walled off the neighborhood. That's when a group of Jews got together to document what was happening. They wrote of disease, starvation and torture, both physical and psychological, but also of themselves, their families and the brief moments of normalcy amid all the horror. This was the Oneg Shabbat archive, and it's our primary record of the Warsaw Ghetto to this day. Featured guest - Dr. Samuel Kassow, historian, Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut).
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