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SUMMARY:Who Will Write Our History?
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn 1940\, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw\, th
 e Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly 
 organization called ' Oyneg Shabes'. For three years they worked in secret
  to chronicle the lives of hundreds of thousands as they suffered starvati
 on\, disease\, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghe
 tto was emptied and razed in 1943\, they buried thousands of documents fro
 m this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes\, ensuring the voice and
  culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to 
 silence them.\n\nUsing newsreels\, voice-overs\, and re-enactments\, Gross
 man\, the documentary's director paints a comprehensive portrait of the ti
 mes and risks taken by Ringelblum and his group. According to the film\, o
 f some 60 members of the Oyneg Shabes\, only three survived until the end 
 of World War II. Portions of the archive had to be excavated from undernea
 th tons of rubble after the war. Parts are still missing.\n\nThe Holocaust
  Learning Center and the Adult Education committee of WJC are proud to pre
 sent Dr. Kassow in a discussion of the film and book of the same title in 
 a Zoom presentation\, on June 14\, 2020 at 10:00am.\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: 
 https://zoom.us/j/97228244476\nMeeting ID: 972 2824 4476\n\nThese introduc
 tory remarks are but a fraction of this compelling story of heroism and de
 dication. Please rent the film\, “WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY” on Amazo
 n prior to watching the program via Zoom on June 14.&nbsp\;\n\nProfessor S
 amuel Kassow will be the keynote speaker at our Zoom Shoa presentation. He
  was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany to two Holocaust survivor
 s. As a child of survivors\, Kassow was very much affected by his backgrou
 nd and developed an interest in Jewish history from a young age. After gra
 duating from college in 1966\, he took a Fulbright in England at the Londo
 n School of Economics and studied at Oxford until eventually deciding to g
 et his PhD in history at Princeton. In 1972\, he went back to Trinity as a
  professor\, where he has been teaching ever since.
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