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September 18, 2026 \u2013 February 14, 2027<\/strong><\/strong>
Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2014 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust<\/a>
<\/strong>Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
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Tuesday, November 3 at 3:00pm\u20144:30pm<\/strong>
Spiritual Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the \u201cOyneg-Shabes\u201d Archive<\/a><\/strong>
YIVO<\/a><\/strong>
This is a live, online course held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Google Classroom. Students will be granted access to the class on Google Classroom after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish.<\/em>
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Will These Words Reach You?<\/em><\/strong> The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto<\/strong><\/em> examines one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance and historical preservation during the Holocaust: the creation of the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. After the Nazis sealed the ghetto in November 1940, more than 400,000 Jews were confined under brutal and dehumanizing conditions. Alongside mass starvation, disease, and violence, Jewish life faced cultural and historical annihilation. Within this environment, documenting daily experience became both a risk and a necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by historian and activist Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, a clandestine group of Jewish scholars, educators, journalists, religious leaders, artists, and youth activists formed Oyneg Shabes, meaning \u201cthe joy of the Sabbath,\u201d named for their secret Saturday meetings. United across political and ideological differences, the group committed itself to recording Jewish life as it unfolded under Nazi rule. Over three years, they gathered nearly 35,000 documents, including testimonies, diaries, letters, underground newspapers, artwork, ration cards, children\u2019s writings, and cultural ephemera. Together, these materials form the most comprehensive contemporaneous Jewish record of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As deportations to concentration camps accelerated in the summer of 1942, the members of Oyneg Shabes understood that survival was increasingly unlikely. In a final act of moral courage, they buried the archive in metal milk containers and boxes beneath the ghetto, hoping it would be recovered after the war. Only three members survived, Hersh and Bluma Wasser and Rokhl Oyerbakh, who later helped locate and unearth the archive. The first cache was recovered on September 18, 1946, with additional materials found four years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Will These Words Reach You<\/em><\/strong>?<\/em> <\/strong>commemorates the 80th anniversary of the archive\u2019s recovery. Through original artifacts, including one of the burial containers, along with reproductions, maps, infographics, animated projections, and film footage of the postwar excavation, the exhibition intertwines Holocaust history with the lived responses of Oyneg Shabes. Central to Jewish heritage, the archive stands as a testament to Jewish agency, intellectual life, and the enduring commitment to memory. By preserving their voices in the midst of catastrophe, Oyneg Shabes ensured that Jews would continue to speak across generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spiritual Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the \u201cOyneg-Shabes\u201d Archive<\/a><\/strong> course is appropriate for Yiddish students at the high-intermediate level and above. Knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet is required. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 1940, the Polish Jewish historian and communal organizer Emanuel Ringelblum convened a meeting to establish a secret archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. The archive bore the code name Oyneg-shabes, Yiddish for \u201cJoy of the Sabbath.\u201d Its members worked tirelessly and at tremendous personal risk to document both the brutality of the Warsaw Ghetto and the resilience of the Jews imprisoned there. Of the 60 people Ringelblum gathered for the project, only three survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Yiddish-language seminar, Samuel Kassow considers the Oyneg-shabes archive as an act of spiritual and cultural resistance through which the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto asserted their dignity and their right to author their own history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instructor, Samuel Kassow, will provide course materials digitally throughout the class via Google Classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course is held in conjunction with 'Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto’, on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from September 18, 2026, through February 14, 2027. The exhibition was created on the initiative of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, with the support of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The course is co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About The Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York\u2019s contribution to the global responsibility to Never Forget. Opened in 1997, the Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum plays a leading role in Holocaust education in New York City and the tri-state area, serving many thousands of school children each year, with initiatives such as its Holocaust Educator School Partnership Program, professional development opportunities, its Speakers Bureau which enables conversations with survivors, and the creation of tools and resources such as the newly released Antisemitism FAQ Educator Resource to support educators in teaching about both historical and contemporary antisemitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum\u2019s current offerings include Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark<\/em><\/a>,\u202fan exhibition about the extraordinary rescue of Denmark\u2019s Jewish population in 1943, a story of mutual aid and communal upstanding in difficult times for visitors aged 9 and up;\u202fand The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do<\/em><\/a>,\u202fa major exhibition offering a timely and expansive presentation of Holocaust history, on view in the main galleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum of Jewish Heritage maintains the Peter & Mary Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Resource Center, a collection of almost 40,000 artifacts, photographs, documentary films, and survivor testimonies, and contains classrooms, a 375-seat theater (Edmond J. Safra Hall), special exhibition galleries, and a memorial art installation, Garden of Stones, designed by internationally acclaimed sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. The Museum also hosts LOX at Caf\u00e9 Bergson an OU-certified caf\u00e9 serving eastern European specialties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year, the Museum presents over 100 public programs, connecting our community in person and virtually through lectures, book talks, concerts, and more. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit <\/a>https:\/\/mjhnyc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Founded in 1947, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw is a leading center for preserving, researching, and sharing the rich history and heritage of Polish Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its unique collections include the Underground Archive of the Warsaw ghetto (the Ringelblum Archive), an extraordinary collection of materials documenting Jewish life and death during the Holocaust, inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through its archives, library, exhibitions, research, and educational programs, the Institute brings voices from the past into meaningful dialogue with the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located in the historic heart of Warsaw, the Institute welcomes visitors and researchers from around the world to discover stories that continue to shape our understanding of Jewish history and heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute promotes knowledge and preserves the memory of Jewish history and heritage through exhibitions dedicated to the Oyneg Shabes group, Jewish artists, creators, and collections, as well as the annual March of Remembrance commemorating the beginning of the Grossaktion Warsaw July 22, 1942 and commemorative ceremonies marking the anniversary of the prisoners\u2019 revolt in the Treblinka death camp, held every year on August 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jewish Historical Institute is a place where the memory and material heritage of Jews are preserved, where reflection on the past is grounded in historical testimony, and where knowledge serves as an inspiration for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto is made possible, in part, thanks to generous support from George Klein and Family, the Goldie and David Blanksteen Foundation, the Charina Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Matthew F. and Terry Schwartz Breitenbach, Michael Eberstadt and Nina Beattie, Nancy Fisher, Patti Kenner, Stacey and Marc Saiontz, and the Nartel Family Foundation. The Museum of Jewish Heritage\u2019s programs are also made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. (As of July 2026. Subject to change.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Together, these materials form the most comprehensive contemporaneous Jewish record of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.\nAs deportations to concentration camps accelerated in the summer of 1942, the members of Oyneg Shabes understood that survival was increasingly unlikely. In a final act of moral courage, they buried the archive in metal milk containers and boxes beneath the ghetto, hoping it would be recovered after the war. Only three members survived, Hersh and Bluma Wasser and Rokhl Oyerbakh, who later helped locate and unearth the archive. The first cache was recovered on September 18, 1946, with additional materials found four years later.\nProduced by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Will These Words Reach You? commemorates the 80th anniversary of the archive\u2019s recovery. Through original artifacts, including one of the burial containers, along with reproductions, maps, infographics, animated projections, and film footage of the postwar excavation, the exhibition intertwines Holocaust history with the lived responses of Oyneg Shabes. Central to Jewish heritage, the archive stands as a testament to Jewish agency, intellectual life, and the enduring commitment to memory. By preserving their voices in the midst of catastrophe, Oyneg Shabes ensured that Jews would continue to speak across generations.\nSpiritual Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the \u201cOyneg-Shabes\u201d Archive course is appropriate for Yiddish students at the high-intermediate level and above. Knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet is required. \nIn the fall of 1940, the Polish Jewish historian and communal organizer Emanuel Ringelblum convened a meeting to establish a secret archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. The archive bore the code name Oyneg-shabes, Yiddish for \u201cJoy of the Sabbath.\u201d Its members worked tirelessly and at tremendous personal risk to document both the brutality of the Warsaw Ghetto and the resilience of the Jews imprisoned there. Of the 60 people Ringelblum gathered for the project, only three survived.\nIn this Yiddish-language seminar, Samuel Kassow considers the Oyneg-shabes archive as an act of spiritual and cultural resistance through which the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto asserted their dignity and their right to author their own history.\nThe instructor, Samuel Kassow, will provide course materials digitally throughout the class via Google Classroom.\nThis course is held in conjunction with 'Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto', on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from September 18, 2026, through February 14, 2027. The exhibition was created on the initiative of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, with the support of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The course is co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.\nAbout The Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust\nThe Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York\u2019s contribution to the global responsibility to Never Forget. Opened in 1997, the Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.\nThe Museum plays a leading role in Holocaust education in New York City and the tri-state area, serving many thousands of school children each year, with initiatives such as its Holocaust Educator School Partnership Program, professional development opportunities, its Speakers Bureau which enables conversations with survivors, and the creation of tools and resources such as the newly released Antisemitism FAQ Educator Resource to support educators in teaching about both historical and contemporary antisemitism.\nThe Museum\u2019s current offerings include Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark,\u202fan exhibition about the extraordinary rescue of Denmark\u2019s Jewish population in 1943, a story of mutual aid and communal upstanding in difficult times for visitors aged 9 and up;\u202fand The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do,\u202fa major exhibition offering a timely and expansive presentation of Holocaust history, on view in the main galleries.\nThe Museum of Jewish Heritage maintains the Peter & Mary Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Resource Center, a collection of almost 40,000 artifacts, photographs, documentary films, and survivor testimonies, and contains classrooms, a 375-seat theater (Edmond J. Safra Hall), special exhibition galleries, and a memorial art installation, Garden of Stones, designed by internationally acclaimed sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. The Museum also hosts LOX at Caf\u00e9 Bergson an OU-certified caf\u00e9 serving eastern European specialties.\nEach year, the Museum presents over 100 public programs, connecting our community in person and virtually through lectures, book talks, concerts, and more. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit https:\/\/mjhnyc.org.\nAbout The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute\n Founded in 1947, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw is a leading center for preserving, researching, and sharing the rich history and heritage of Polish Jews.\nIts unique collections include the Underground Archive of the Warsaw ghetto (the Ringelblum Archive), an extraordinary collection of materials documenting Jewish life and death during the Holocaust, inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.\nThrough its archives, library, exhibitions, research, and educational programs, the Institute brings voices from the past into meaningful dialogue with the present.\nLocated in the historic heart of Warsaw, the Institute welcomes visitors and researchers from around the world to discover stories that continue to shape our understanding of Jewish history and heritage.\nThe Institute promotes knowledge and preserves the memory of Jewish history and heritage through exhibitions dedicated to the Oyneg Shabes group, Jewish artists, creators, and collections, as well as the annual March of Remembrance commemorating the beginning of the Grossaktion Warsaw July 22, 1942 and commemorative ceremonies marking the anniversary of the prisoners\u2019 revolt in the Treblinka death camp, held every year on August 2.\nThe Jewish Historical Institute is a place where the memory and material heritage of Jews are preserved, where reflection on the past is grounded in historical testimony, and where knowledge serves as an inspiration for the future.\nWill These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto is made possible, in part, thanks to generous support from George Klein and Family, the Goldie and David Blanksteen Foundation, the Charina Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Matthew F. and Terry Schwartz Breitenbach, Michael Eberstadt and Nina Beattie, Nancy Fisher, Patti Kenner, Stacey and Marc Saiontz, and the Nartel Family Foundation. The Museum of Jewish Heritage\u2019s programs are also made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. (As of July 2026. 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