Yom Hashoah: The JCNCF Community Holocaust Remembrance Program ~ Sunday, May 1 - 7 pm 

Recording Life in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Archives. A Talk by Samuel Kassow

At Congregation B'nai Israel ~ 3830 NW 16th Blvd, Gainesville, 32605

This event is made possible by a partnership between the Jewish Council of North Central Florida and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida. 

With additional sponsorship from:

Dr. Harry Krop & Dawn Burgess-Krop

Temple Shir Shalom 

Thank you to Congregation B'nai Israel for hosting this annual event. 

Please click on any of the logos on this page to visit the organization's website. Click on the photos of Kassow and Ringelblum to learn more about them. 


 


 
Dr. Samuel Kassow

 

Dr. Sam Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. This talk is based on his book, Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, which has been translated into eight languages. Dr. Kassow will remain after the conclusion of the program to facilitate discussion. 

The program will run approximately 90 minutes and will also include a brief history of the Holocaust and a candle lighting ceremony. 

 


 
Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum

 

Emanuel Ringelbum was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto and Notes on the Refugees in Zbaszyn which chronicled the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbaszyn. He is best known for his Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto (the Oyneg Shabes Archive), which he and other historians created and hid in milk cans to document the atrocities of the Nazis.  



 
Dr. Kassow will also be speaking at 5:30 on Monday, May 2 in the Judaica Suite of Smathers Library of the University of Florida. His talk, In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Joseph Zelkowicz is free and open to the public. 

For more information about this event or any other JCNCF program, please visit www.jcncf.org or call 352.371.3846.  To learn more about the Center for Jewish Studies at UF, please visit web.jst.ufl.edu or call 352.392.9297.