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27-586: After the war, two of the three caches were recovered and today the re-discovered archive, containing about 6,000 documents (some 35,000 pages), is preserved in the Jewish Historical Institute , Warsaw . The name Oneg Shabbat means joy of the Sabbath in Hebrew and usually refers to a celebratory gathering held after Sabbath services, often with food, singing, study, discussion, and socializing. This name

54-521: A feature documentary about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel. In 2020, Grossman received the Taube Jewish Peoplehood Award. The award honors Jewish men and women who have worked to foster pride in Jewish identity and heritage for new generations, making a uniquely Jewish contribution to global culture. In 2021, along with Caroline Libresco, Grossman launched Jewish Story Partners (JSP),

81-732: A focus on Jewish history . Grossman was born and raised in Los Angeles , California . She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a major in History and earned her MA in Producing from the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies in Los Angeles. She considered obtaining a PhD and embarking on an academic career, but regarded making documentaries as

108-487: A more effective way to convey history and engage with historical subjects. She released her first film in 1983, a biography of blues singer-songwriter Sippie Wallace called Sippie . The film was co-directed with Michelle Paymar. In 1995, Grossman produced and co-wrote Jack Leustig’s 500 Nations , an 8-hour CBS mini-series on the history of Native Americans. Executive producers were Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner . In

135-696: The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, is a public cultural and research institution in Warsaw , Poland, chiefly dealing with the history of Jews in Poland and Jewish culture. The Jewish Historical Institute was created in 1947 as a continuation of the Central Jewish Historical Commission  [ pl ] , founded in 1944. The Jewish Historical Institute Association is the corporate body responsible for

162-698: The Jewish Historical Institute , Warsaw. In 1960, students of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira , The Piaseczno Rebbe , published the Aish Kodesh which were derashos on the parsha that the rebbe had delivered between September 1939 and July 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto and which were discovered with the Ringelblum Archive. In 1999, the Emanuel Ringelblum Archives were listed on the Memory of

189-557: The Joint and Jewish Self-Help (welfare organizations active in Poland under the occupation), and documents from the Jewish Councils ( Judenräte ). The section on the documentation of Jewish historical sites holds about 40 thousand photographs concerning Jewish life and culture in Poland. The institute has published a series of documents from the Ringelblum Archive, as well as numerous wartime memoirs and diaries. Also, for over 60 years now,

216-621: The Director of the Jewish Historical Institute by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2024, a group of Institute employees sent a letter to the new Minister of Culture and National Heritage, calling the director "authoritarian and incompetent". Roberta Grossman Roberta Grossman (born January 7, 1959) is an American filmmaker . Her documentaries range from social justice inquiries to historical subjects with

243-776: The Holocaust (2) Children — covert teaching in the Warsaw Ghetto (3) Accounts from Kresy (4) Life and work of Gela Seksztajn (5) The Warsaw Ghetto . Everyday Life (6) The General Governorate . Accounts and Documents (7) Legacies (8) Territories annexed to the Reich: The Reich District of Danzig-West Prussia, Ciechanów district, Upper Silesia (9) Territories annexed to the Reich: Wartheland (10) Fate of Jews from Łódź (1939–1942). In 2007, historian Samuel Kassow published Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum,

270-603: The Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabbes Archive listing all accounts of the Oyneg Shabes archives that have been found. In 2019, a documentary film directed by Roberta Grossman about the Ringelblum Archive, based on Kassow's book Who Will Write Our History? , was released. Jewish Historical Institute The Jewish Historical Institute ( Polish : Żydowski Instytut Historyczny or ŻIH ; Yiddish : ‏ייִדישער היסטאָרישער אינסטיטוט ), also known as

297-574: The World Register by UNESCO. A catalog of the Ringelblum Archive was published in book form in 2009 by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw; and the entire archive is also available to researchers in digital format at both institutions. The Jewish Historical Institute has published a book series summarizing parts of the archive. The first 10 volumes are: (1) Letters concerning

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324-476: The building and the institute's holdings. The Institute falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage . In 2009 it was named after Emanuel Ringelblum and became a public cultural institution. The institute is a repository of documentary materials relating to the Jewish historical presence in Poland. It is also a centre for academic research, study and the dissemination of knowledge about

351-712: The camp to the Oneg Shabbat group. His report, which became known as the Grojanowski Report , was smuggled out of the ghetto through the channels of the Polish underground, reached London and was published by June. All but three members of the Oyneg Shabbos were murdered in the genocides. Emanuel Ringelblum escaped the ghetto, but continued to return to work on the archives. In 1944 Ringelblum and his family were discovered and were executed along with those who hid them. After

378-461: The festival circuit. On January 27, 2019, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the film was simultaneously screened on over 600 screens in 62 countries around the world. The film was also broadcast on NDR, Arte and the Discovery Channel in early 2020 and continues to be screened and discussed by community centers, organizations, museums and more and on college and high school campuses around

405-570: The following years, she created several more historical documentaries for TV, including In the Footsteps of Jesus for The History Channel , The History of Sex and Rock and Roll for VH1 , Special Report: Las Vegas for MSNBC , Christianity: The First 1000 Years , Mysteries of the Bible: Judas , Heroines of the Hebrew Bible for A&E and Women on Top for AMC . In 1999, Grossman founded

432-582: The history and culture of Polish Jewry . The most valuable part of the collection is the Warsaw Ghetto Archive, known as the Ringelblum Archive (collected by the Oyneg Shabbos ). It contains some 6,000 documents (some 30,000 pages). Other important collections concerning World War II include testimonies (mainly of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust ), memoirs and diaries, documentation of

459-645: The institute has been publishing an academic journal renamed in 2001 as the Jewish History Quarterly  [ pl ] ( Polish : Kwartalnik Historii Żydów ), registered on the Master Journal List of outstanding academic journals in 2011. In 2021, Monika Krawczyk, a lawyer and the managing director of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in the years 2004–2019, was appointed

486-532: The journey of the song, Hava Nagila, from Ukraine to YouTube. Released theatrically and screened at 80 Jewish film festivals, Hava Nagila: The Movie was either opening or closing night at more than half of those festivals. Director Dyanna Taylor’s film about her grandmother, the photographer Dorothea Lange , Grab a Hunk of Lightning , aired on PBS's "American Masters" in 2014 and was produced by Grossman. She directed Above and Beyond (2015) for producer Nancy Spielberg. The feature-length documentary told

513-600: The non-profit production company Katahdin Productions together with Lisa Thomas. Katahdin released its first feature film in 2005, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action . Music from the movie, "Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth" won the 2005 Grammy for Best Native American Album. In 2008, Katahdin released Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh. The film was produced by Marta Kauffman, written by Sophie Sartain and directed by Grossman and told

540-607: The pace of deportations increased, and it became clear that the destination was the Treblinka death camp and few Jewish Varsovians were likely to survive, Ringelblum had the archives stored in three milk cans and ten metal boxes, which were then buried in three places in the Ghetto. On January 19, 1942, an escaped inmate from the Chełmno extermination camp , Jacob Grojanowski , reached the Warsaw Ghetto, where he gave detailed information about

567-459: The story of Hannah Senesh , a World War II era poet and diarist who parachuted behind enemy lines to rescue her mother and other Hungarian Jews. It won the audience award at 13 Jewish film festivals, was broadcast on PBS, nominated for a Primetime Emmy , and shortlisted for an Academy Award . Grossman and Sophie Sartain’s Hava Nagila: The Movie was released in 2012. The film was produced by Marta Kauffman. The feature-length documentary traced

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594-472: The story of Jewish American World War II era pilots who volunteered to fight for Israel in its 1948 War of Independence, also establishing the Israeli Air Force. Interviews with pilots who flew these missions is one of the highlights of the film. Grossman produced, wrote and directed a documentary about the secret archives of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. The archive, known as Oyneg Shabbos ,

621-542: The voices of three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, the film was a New York Times Critic’s Pick in 2019. It played in over 50 film festivals around the world, including Berlinale, Festa del Cinema di Roma, Palm Springs International Film Fest and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. The film garnered numerous other awards on

648-525: The war, Rokhl Auerbakh , one of the three surviving members of Oyneg Shabes, initiated the search for the buried chronicles. Two of the canisters, containing thousands of documents, were unearthed on 18 September 1946 and a further ten boxes on 1 December 1950. The third cache was thought to be buried beneath what is now the Chinese Embassy in Warsaw but a search in 2005 failed to find the missing archival material. The recovered archives are now preserved in

675-540: The world. Also in 2018, Grossman co-directed with Sophie Sartain the Netflix Original Documentary Seeing Allred , about women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, which premiered in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Along with producer Nancy Spielberg, Grossman is currently producing a documentary about famed photographer Roman Vishniac , directed by Laura Bialis. She is also collaborating with Sophie Sartain and Dr. Susannah Heschel on

702-491: Was assembled and hidden under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum . The film, called Who Will Write Our History? is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow of Trinity College in Connecticut. Grossman optioned the rights to the book and worked with Executive Producer Nancy Spielberg to raise money for the film. Who Will Write Our History was released in 2018 to great acclaim. Featuring

729-401: Was selected because the group tended to meet on Shabbat to discuss the progress of their collection and documentation efforts. The form Oyneg Shabbos is Ashkenazic pronunciation. The members of Oyneg Shabbos initially collected the material with the intention that they would write a book after the war about the horrors they had witnessed. The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed on November 16, 1940. As

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