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Untitled (Ringelblum Archive 1)

Żmijewski, Artur (1966 - )

It is part of the collection:

First of the two black-and-white shots, next to MPOLIN-M1045, taken with a wide-angle lens, showing the site of the Ringelblum Archive commemoration, on the square between the residential buildings at the 28 and 30 Nowolipki Street (ul. Nowolipki 28 and 30), where there once was a tenement house with the address 68 Nowolipki Street (ul. Nowolipki 68).

Photograph shows the contemporary view of the place where the archive was hidden and from where it was dug up after the war. It was precisely in the basement of the building at 68 Nowolipki Street (ul. Nowolipki 68) that, in August 1942 and February 1943, activists of the underground group Oneg Shabbat hid in metal containers and milk cans the documents of the Underground Warsaw Ghetto Archive also know as the Ringelblum Archive. This collection is a priceless source depicting the Holocaust of the Polish Jews. The documents preserved include reports, official prints, underground press published by political groups and Oneg Shabbat, as well as accounts and diaries. The importance of the collection was recognised by the UNESCO Committee which included the Ringelblum Archive on the Memory of the World Register in 1990. After the end of the war, on 18 September 1946, the first part of the archive collection was dug up from the rubble of the house at 68 Nowolipki Street (ul. Nowolipki 68), the second part was recovered on 1 December 1950. Despite many attempts, the third part of the archive, which was supposedly hidden on the area of the property at 34 Świętojerska Street (ul. Świętojerska 34, currently the premises of the Chinese Embassy) has not been found to this day. Thanks to the efforts of Prof. Jacek Leociak, the History Meeting House, the KARTA Centre, the Jewish Historical Institute, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Muranów Station and the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, the site where the Ringelblum Archive was hidden got commemorated.

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Information about the object
Author / creator
Żmijewski, Artur (1966 - )
Object type
photography
Time of creation / dating
21st century
Place of creation
Warszawa (mazovian province)
Technique
digital photograph
Material
unknown
Keywords
Copyright status
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Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-M1044
Localization
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