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This event has been canceled. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is closely monitoring the rapidly changing situation with COVID-19 (the coronavirus). The safety and well-being of our event attendees, program participants, and staff are our highest priority. Thank you for your understanding. We appreciate your interest in the Museum and hope you will join us at a future program.
This documentary by Roberta Grossman and Nancy Spielberg reveals how a clandestine group in the Warsaw ghetto vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda, not with guns or fists, but with pen and paper.
Who Will Write Our History is the first documentary on the effort code-named Oneg Shabbat. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, a band of journalists, scholars, and community leaders secretly documented Nazi atrocities. The clandestine team faced constant danger, including the ever-present threat of being discovered by Gestapo agents. One of Ringelblum's greatest achievements was that the Germans never stumbled on the secret. The Oneg Shabbat resistors eventually buried 60,000 pages in hopes that the archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
Join us for the film screening of Who Will Write Our History and a panel discussion about the film and the Museum’s collection and preservation of the Ringelblum Archives. A reception will follow.
Speakers
Roberta Grossman, Director and Producer, Who Will Write Our History
Suzy Snyder, Curator, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Moderator
Rabbi Jocee Hudson, Associate Rabbi, Temple Israel of Hollywood
This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
For more information, please contact the Museum’s Western Regional Office at 310.556.3222 or western@ushmm.org.