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In Nazi-occupied Poland, historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who headed the Jewish Self-Help Society (Jewish relief organization) in Warsaw, asked Rachel Auerbach to organize a public kitchen. Once Jews were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, public kitchens supplied the hungry masses with a daily meal. Auerbach heeded Ringelblum's request. She also became a member of the clandestine Oyneg Shabbes (“Joy of the Sabbath”) Archive. In this capacity she documented the sights she encountered in her everyday work and the starvation of the Ghetto's inhabitants (approx. 450,000 people). Auerbach was one of three of the Archive's members to survive the war. She dedicated her life to the documentation of and research into the Holocaust.
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Archival footage, photographs and documents:
- Yad Vashem Archives
- Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
- Agentur Karl Höffkes
- Footage of the discovery of the Oyneg Shabbes underground archive from "Mir Leben Geblibene - We the Living Remnant" (Poland, 1947), courtesy of Natan and Ya'akov Gross.
- Ghetto Fighters' House Archives, Israel
- Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Bundesfilmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH.
- Footage of Rudolf Bohlmann used with the kind permission of Eginhard Teichmann.
- State Archive of the Russian Federation
Texts:
- Rachel Auerbach, In the Streets of Warsaw (Hebrew)
- Rachel Auerbach, The Wills of Warsaw (Hebrew)
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