Emanuel Ringelblum: Historian of the Warsaw Ghetto

Historian before the war

Ringelblum was a trained historian of Polish Jewry whose scholarly background shaped the systematic method of Oyneg Shabes.

He became deeply involved in Jewish self-help under occupation and gained wide knowledge of ghetto conditions.

He organized a clandestine team that collected diaries, surveys, reports, posters and underground publications.

After escaping the ghetto, Ringelblum hid with his family and others in the Krysia bunker.

The bunker was discovered in March 1944; Ringelblum, his family and the other hidden Jews were murdered.

The recovered archive is one of the central victim-generated sources for the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

This page draws on the institutional sources listed below.