Resisting the Nazis Despite the Odds By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: April 16, 2007 The discipline and determination are
half-brilliant, half-mad: in 1940, in Warsaw, the Polish-Jewish
historian Emanuel Ringelblum decided that the entire experience
of Jewry under Nazi rule should be thoroughly documented. The
internment of Jews within the Warsaw ghetto, he wrote (with
chilly irony), “provided even greater opportunity for
development of the archive.” Skip to next paragraph Shulamith
Posner-Mansbach/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The
show at the Museaum of Jewish Heritage includes this 1932 photo
taken in Kiel, Germany. More Photos » Resisting the Nazis A
competition was established to select writers, teachers and
intellectuals; they would study topics like community life,
education, crime, youth, art and religion, while helping to
smuggle information into the ghetto. Comprehensiveness and
objectivity were meant to eclipse surrounding horrors,
documenting them for the future. The secret project was cal