EAN: 9783835355453

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The Underground Archive is the first attempt to document the Shoah from the perspective of
those affected and directly during the events.Before World War II  Poland was home to 3.3
million Jews  and Warsaw was the cultural  religious and political center of this diverse
community. A year after the German war of aggression began  the Nazis forced the Jewish
population into a sealed-off part of the city. The historian Emanuel Ringelblum then stimulated
an unprecedented project: a group working in secret  documenting the daily life of the ghetto
under the code name Oneg Shabbat (Joy of Shabbat). Cut off from the world  it collected and
produced a wealth of material. With the beginning of the systematic murder of Polish Jews  they
unwillingly became chroniclers of the Shoah  which they themselves  with few exceptions  did
not survive. After the war  a large part of the archive  buried in tin crates and milk cans 
was recovered from under the ruins of the ghetto. With its approximately 35 000 preserved pages
it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The volume is published on the occasion of the
exhibition of the same name  which the NS Documentation Center Munich will open in cooperation
with the Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw in June 2023.

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