At 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, at the Atlantis Hotel Casino, the voices of people who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II—and were among the more than 3 million Polish Jews murdered in the Holocaust—will testify from the grave.
Samuel Kassow, author of Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive From the Warsaw Ghetto (a book which is the basis of a documentary that can be viewed free on YouTube) is the featured speaker at the event. Kassow, who recently retired as a professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., will talk about the Ringelblum Archive, a collection of documents and materials secretly created in the Warsaw Ghetto and buried just prior to the ghetto uprising of 1943. The caches collected by the Oyneg Shabes, a group under the direction of historian Emanuel Ringelblum from 1940 to 1943, contain journals, essays, photos, artwork and items from everyday life, which were gathered as the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded in real time. Two of the three portions of the archive were discovered in 1946 and 1950; the third has never been found.
The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Attendees may RSVP on the Day of Remembrance website. An artwork exhibition from the archive will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Atlantis ballroom lobby…