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One of ten metal containers in which the “Oneg Shabbat” Archive was hidden

Metal box in which part of the Oneg Shabbat Archive was preserved
Metal box in which part of the Oneg Shabbat Archive was preserved

The Oneg Shabbat Archive is the most signficant collection of sources in the world documenting the Holocaust - sources that were created and gathered by the victims themselves during the Holocaust. The Archive is comprised of diaries and notes, memoirs, photographs, clandestine newspapers, monographs, letters and more - all of which are of inestimable value in the study of the living conditions, the creativity, the struggle and the murder of Polish Jewry in the Shoah.
The Archive was named by its founder and director Emanuel Ringelbum. Ringelblum, a  historian, teacher, social activist and visionary, was murdered in the Holocaust.

Metal box in which part of the Oneg Shabbat Archive was preserved
Retrieving the hidden “Oneg Shabbat” archive after the war
Retrieving the hidden “Oneg Shabbat” archive after the war

Retrieving the hidden “Oneg Shabbat” archive after the war
Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the founder of the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw ghetto
Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the founder of the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw ghetto

Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the founder of the Oneg Shabbat Archives in the Warsaw ghetto
Ceremony marking the loan of the container to Yad Vashem
Ceremony marking the loan of the container to Yad Vashem

Holding the container is Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate. Behind him to the left is a representative of the Zydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw, Poland. Left, Haviva Peled-Carmeli, former Director of the Artifacts Department, Yad Vashem

Ceremony marking the loan of the container to Yad Vashem