Yom Hashoah Program commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1:00pm Film Screening
Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman
1994, Polish with English subtitles
A critically acclaimed documentary account featuring the narrative of Edelman, a member of the Jewish Labor Bund and a leading participant in the uprising. Film provied by the National Center for Jewish Film.
3:00pm Roundtable Discussion
From the YIVO Archives
Oneg Shabes: The Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archive
The spring program featured YIVO's Hersch Wasser collection (1939-1946), which consists of materials from the Warsaw ghetto organized by Emanuel Ringelblum as part of the underground Oyneg Shabes collection effort. A roundtable discussion featuring David Engel, Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at NYU, and Robert Shapiro, Professor for Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College.