Emmanuel Ringelblum

Emmanuel Ringleblum: Historian of the Warsaw Ghetto by Mark Beyer


This is a facinating biography of a man dedicated to recording a history of what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.  Emmanuel had been a historian before the events of World War II began to unfold.  As he began to see what happened when Hitler gained power and what life was like in the Warsaw Ghetto, he recorded the events in his journal, determined to preserve a record of what happened so that future generations would know.  He and a group of people he trained illegally kept journals, recording their observations and interviews with people.  Before the Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed, they buried their journals, papers, photos and records within the ghetto, hoping they would be found and stand as a record of what happened to the Jews under Hitler's rule.