Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by Paul A. Shapiro, Eleonora Bergman, and Feliks Tych
Translator's Preface by Robert Moses Shapiro
Introduction by Samuel D. Kassow
Structure and Organization of the Ringelblum Archive and Its Catalog / Tadeusz Epsztein
Contents of the Inventory
Ringelblum I
Ringelblum II
Abbreviations
Abbreviations for Identifying Handwriting in the Inventory of the Ringelblum Archive Inventory
Catalog of Ringelblum I
Catalog of Ringelblum II
Concordances
Call Numbers in Ringelblum I: New Call Numbers = Old Call Numbers
Call Numbers in Ringelblum I: Old Call Numbers = New Call Numbers
Call Numbers in Ringelblum I: Oldest Call Numbers (pre-1955) = New Call Numbers
Call Numbers in Ringelblum II: New Call Numbers = Old Call Numbers
Call Numbers in Ringelblum II: Old Call Numbers = New Call Numbers
List of Liquidated Archival Units
Index of Names Ringelblum I
Index of Names Ringelblum II
Index of Places Ringelblum I
Index of Places Ringelblum II

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Guide to a once-buried archive from the Warsaw ghetto

About the Author

Robert Moses Shapiro is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Tadeusz Epsztein is a longtime associate of the Polish Academy of Science's Institute of History and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Samuel D. Kassow is Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College.

Reviews

"The Oyneg Shabes Archive is perhaps the most important collection of original material compiled by Jews during the Holocaust... Conscious of the momentous times in which they lived and of the deadly peril facing the Jews of Europe, [participants in the project] were determined to chronicle all aspects of life in the ghetto to serve as a record for the future." Antony Polonsky, editor of Polin