The Centro Sefarad-Israel presents tomorrow at 6 p.m. at its headquarters the lecture Life in the Warsaw Ghetto through the Ringelblum Archive, which will be given by Ángel Luis Encinas, professor at the Faculty of Philology of the Complutense University of Madrid.
Shortly after the Nazis entered Poland, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum began to narrate the events that the Jews of Warsaw were experiencing under Nazi control. Once the Jews were forced into the Warsaw ghetto, Ringelblum made the decision to found the clandestine archive Óneg Shabbat (“Pleasure of Shabbat / Sabbath”). To this end, he assembled a group of documenters from different backgrounds, with the intention of recording in writing the events as they occurred at all levels of Jewish society in the ghetto. The manuscripts were buried underground in the Warsaw ghetto itself in metal boxes and milk cans, in three separate locations. After the war, two parts of the archive were discovered in 1946 and 1950. The third part was never found.
Ángel Luis Encinas, professor at the Faculty of Philology of the Complutense University of Madrid, will give a lecture on the Ringelblum archive as one of the most important testimonies available on the history of the Warsaw ghetto. Professor Encinas has also been one of the translators of the documents preserved in the archive.
The lecture will be followed by a screening of the animated short film Winning God by Hanna Krall. Admission is free, subject to confirmation via this link.
