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3. Smuggling - Peretz Opoczynski

The Oyneg Shabes archive secretly recorded existence in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 to 1943. Led by Emanuel Ringeblum, it became history as survival.

The story of the Oyneg Shabes archive. Between 1940-43 a group of dedicated writers, led by historian Emanuel Ringeblum, secretly recorded daily Jewish existence in the Warsaw Ghetto. The project grew to become history as survival. Anton Lesser narrates this 10 part series revealing the lives, stories & destruction of the Ghetto.
Episode 3-Smuggling. Yiddish journalist & poet Peretz Opoczynski was one of Oyneg Shabes' most gifted writers, effortlessly capturing the nuances of the daily struggle to survive. Nowhere more so than in his depiction of the smuggling that proved essential to the survival of Jewish and non-Jewish Poles alike. With Alfred Molina .

In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the 20th Century, a half million Jewish men, women & children were herded into a prison city within a city. Walled off & surrounded by the German occupiers & their collaborators. How do you tell the world about your life and fate? Historian and activist Emanuel Ringelblum devised and directed a clandestine archive- codename Oyneg Shabes (Joy of the Sabbath) to chronicle every aspect of their existence. He recruited over 60 'zamlers' or gatherers to write, collect & compile thousands of pages-diaries, essays, poems, art, photographs & ephemera. The archive was buried as the ghetto was being destroyed. Listen to their stories.

Narration by Anton Lesser with Alfred Molina. Translation by David Suchoff. Warsaw Streetscape voices Helen Beer and Mame Loshn. Krystena Bell & Syrena Youth Theatre. Historical adviser Samuel Kassow, Musical adviser Bret Werb. Written & produced by Mark Burman.

For more information go to: https://www.jhi.pl/en/research/the-ringelblum-archive-and-the-oneg-shabbat-group/about-the-ringelblum-archive

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Wed 26 Apr 2023 13:45

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  • Wed 26 Apr 2023 13:45