English translations of the Ringelblum Archive

CHILDREN. CLANDESTINE EDUCATION IN THE WARSAW GHETTO

The documents in this volume of the Ringelblum Archive, compiled and edited by Dr Ruta Sakowska, concern the children in the Warsaw ghetto, the largest ghetto in occupied Europe. At least a quarter of the ghetto’s inhabitants were children of different ages.The materials in this volume reflect not only the fate of children at the time of the Holocaust, but also present an extremely important record of civil resistance and social activity in the ghettos.

Edited by: Ruta Sakowska

Translation from Polish: Katarzyna Gucio

Translation from Yiddish: Jennifer Bell, Dianne Levitin

THE FINAL STAGE OF RESETTLEMENT IS DEATH

Edited by: Barbara Engelking, Alina Skibińska, Ewa Wiatr

Translation from Polish: Anna Brzostowska, Jerzy Giebułtowski

Translation from Yiddish: Daniel Kennedy, Miriam Schulz, Ri J. Turner, Janina Wurbs, Sandra Chiritescu

ACCOUNTS FROM THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Edited by: Barbara Engelking, Alina Skibińska, Ewa Wiatr

Translation from Polish: Anna Brzostowska, Jerzy Giebułtowski

Translation from Yiddish: Daniel Kennedy, Miriam Schulz, Ri J. Turner, Janina Wurbs, Sandra Chiritescu

ACCOUNTS FROM THE ANNEXED TERRITORIES: WARTHEGAU, REICHSGAU DANZIG-WEST PRUSSIA, REGIERUNGSBEZIRK ZICHENAU, UPPER SILESIA

Edited by: Monika Polit, Magdalena Siek, Ewa Wiatr

Translation from Polish: Anna Brzostowska, Jerzy Giebułtowski

Translation from Yiddish: Jennifer Bell, Barry Smerin, Victoria Dorosz, Wojciech Tworek, Daniel Kennedy, Elena Watson, Fleur Kuhn, Rebecca Wolpe, Dianne Levitin

Translation from Hebrew: Yale Reisner

THE RINGELBLUM ARCHIVE. UNDERGROUND ARCHIVE OF THE WARSAW GHETTO, VOL. 8

Edited by: Eleonora Bergman, Katarzyna Person, Michał Trębacz, Zofia Trębacz

Translation from Polish: Krzysztof Heymer

Translation from Yiddish: Jennifer Bell, Christopher Hutton, Dianne Levitin

 

THE RINGELBLUM ARCHIVE. UNDERGROUND ARCHIVE OF THE WARSAW GHETTO, VOL. 9

LETTERS ON THE SHOAH

This book is based on Listy o Zagładzie [Letters on the Shoah], the first volume of the Polish edition of the materials of the Ringelblum Archive, the underground archive of the Warsaw ghetto. It was published in 1997 and contained letters testifying to the dying ghettos, destruction of Jews in killing centres and mass executions. Although many of the letters concerned individual persons and families, most often it was a way to convey information about entire communities. The editor of the volume was Ruta Sakowska (1922– 2011), a pioneering researcher and expert in the history of the Warsaw ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes group. She was an initiator of the project to publish the entire Ringelblum Archive in Polish. (excerpt from the Introduction)

The volume is available on the Central Jewish Library website.

Edited by: Eleonora Bergman, Maria Ferenc

Translation from Polish: Jerzy Giebułtowski, Maria Ferenc

Translation from Yiddish: Eleonora Bergman, Raphael Halff, Michael C. Steinlauf, Lena Watson

Translation from German: Maria Ferenc, Jerzy Giebułtowski, Wojciech Tworek

THE RINGELBLUM ARCHIVE. UNDERGROUND ARCHIVE OF THE WARSAW GHETTO, VOL. 10

THE JUDENRAT IN WARSAW 1939–1943

This publication is the English version of volume 12 of the Polish edition of the Ringelblum Archive, entitled Rada Żydowska w Warszawie (1939–1943), and contains almost all the documents relating to this institution that have survived in the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Judenrat, which organised the lives of almost half a million Jews, was itself an extremely vast organism. By the end of 1940, it employed some 1,600 officials, three times as many as the Jewish Community on the eve of the war. A powerful organ of the Judenrat was the Jewish Order Service, which had nearly 2,000 people in the summer of 1942.

The documents published in this volume date from the spring of 1940 to January 1943 and relate to the operations of over twenty departments of the Council. They include extensive correspondence between the Judenrat and superior German institutions, as well as internal documents, containing material from various departments, such as the daily orders of Jewish Police Commander Jozef Szerynski and reports prepared by the Statistics Department, in which dry figures show the tragedy of the starving and tormented Jewish residents of Warsaw.

Edited by: Marta Janczewska, Eleonora Bergman

Translation from Polish: Anna Brzostowska, Jerzy Giebułtowski

Translation from Yiddish: Daniel Kennedy