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Icchak Giterman had been a dedicated social activist and the director of Joint in Poland for many years. Ringelblum, who co-organized with him aid for Polish Jews displaced to Zbąszyń due to Polenaktion, wrote about him that he was a man of extraordinary thought, who had his own opinion about every issue. During the war, he supported resistance, organized aid for other ghettos, and since May 1940, he joined the board of Oneg Shabbat, supporting the group financially as well. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he lost his wife and son. He managed to obtain a false Argentinian passport but abandoned the idea of escaping. He was shot by Germans on 18 January 1943.

A teacher, social worker, a man of letters – Israel Lichtensztajn was one of the key figures of the Oneg Shabbat group. Together with Dawid Graber and Nachum Grzywacz, he hid from the Germans the first two parts of the Ringelblum Archive, containing over 35,000 pages of materials, in the basement at 68 Nowolipki Street. He died in the first days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943.

Szmuel Szajnkinder was a footballer and sports journalist. In 1939, he participated in the defense of Warsaw, and later worked at the Jewish Social Self-Help Public Kitchen Central, where he met Emanuel Ringelblum. He began his work for Oneg Shabbat probably in early 1942 by donating his diary and a few personal accounts, including one from the September Campaign. Szajnkinder was killed during the Great Deportation in the summer of 1942.