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Yiddish. Emanuel Ringelblum, perished in Holocaust “Ktavim fun geto” (Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto), illustr., 1st vol., 1961 - Yiddish. Emanuel Ringelblum, perished in Holocaust “Ktavim fun geto” (Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto), illustr., 1st vol., 1961 Emanuel Ringelblum Ktavim fun geto - Dziennik Warszawskiego Getta, Tom I (1939-1942), illust., 1961, Yiddish Varlag ”Idisz Buch”, Warszawa, 1961, 446 pp., illustrated by the portrait of the author and manuscripts of the diary, soft cover, 24 x 17 cm. Condition: damping, foxing, staining and chipping to edges of first 70 pages and cover. Some pages with foxing stains. Weight: 830 gr. Emanuel Ringelblum was a historian, pedagogue and social activist. He founded the Underground Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto (also known as the Ringelblum Archives). He was born on 21st November 1900 in Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, and he was killed in Warsaw on 7th March 1944. In the Warsaw Ghetto, Emmanuel Ringelblum participated in the work of the Central Relief Committee (later the Coordinating Committee), which coordinated the charitable assistance of various Jewish organizations. After the creation of the Jewish Mutual Aid organization, he became the head of its social department. Since 1942, he became a member of the Anti-Fascist Bloc and participated in the creation of the Jewish Fighting Organization. From October 1939, Emmanuel Ringelblum began to collect written and printed evidence about the situation of the Jews in occupied Poland. In the spring of 1940, he organized an underground group of Jewish historians, writers and public figures of several dozen people, which became known as ”Oyneg Shabes”. This group collected various documents about the cultural, political and social life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Information about the crimes of the German authorities was sent to the West through Polish underground organizations. After receiving information about the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in the fall of 1941, the archive, which was collected by the Oyneg Shabes group, was sealed in milk cans and hidden in various places. From the autumn of 1942 he worked for the German carpentry company Hallmann. At the end of February 1943, Emmanuel Ringelblum, together with his wife and son, managed to get out of the Warsaw ghetto and take refuge in a cache on the Aryan side in the so-called Krysia bunker in the basement of house number 81 on Gruetzka Street. On the eve of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, Emmanuel Ringelblum moved to the ghetto to spend Passover there and hide the last part of the Oyneg Shabes archive. In the ghetto, he was captured by the Germans and sent to the Travniki concentration camp. Through the efforts of the Polish underground organization Żegota, Emmanuel Ringelblum was secretly taken out of the concentration camp and hidden in Warsaw. At first, he hid in house number 2 on Radziminskaya Street, then he moved to the Krys bunker, where he met with his family. In the Krys bunker, Emmanuel Ringelblum continued to work on collecting documents. Together with Adolf Berman, he wrote a work on the fate of Jewish writers in occupied Poland, which was forwarded to the Jewish Research Institute in New York. On March 7, 1944, the Gestapo, on the basis of a denunciation by a teenage Pole, revealed the location of the Krysia bunker and all those hiding in the bunker were sent to the Pawiak prison. Three days later, all those arrested were shot on the territory of the destroyed Warsaw ghetto.