In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, “Who Will Write Our History” mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters.

On December 27, 2018, The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations at the Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with The European Association of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Paris) invites you to a scientific symposium devoted to Ringelblum Archives and the screening of the movie “Who will write our history?”

December 27, 2018

Tel Aviv University

15:30 Gathering and Refreshments

Prof. Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Anna C. Zielinska, AEMJP / University of Lorraine, France

16:15-17:15 PANEL I – The Oneg Shabbes Project and Rachel Auerbach

Chair: Dr. Roni Stauber, TAU
Dr. Karolina Szymaniak, The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute – ŻIH (In English)
Prof. Leora Bilsky, TAU
Dr. Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College (In English)

17:30-18:15 PANEL II – Visual Representations of the Warsaw Ghetto

Chair: Dr. Ela Bauer, Kibbutzim College
Prof. Dalia Ofer, Hebrew University
Dr. Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University
Prof. Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University

18:30-20:00 PANEL III – Film Screening (with Hebrew subtitles)

Chair: Ela Bauer
“Who will write our history“, dir. Roberta Grossman

Approximate time of conclusion: 8pm.

The event is a joint venture of several institutions:

– The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations at the Tel Aviv University
– The European Association of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Paris)

in collaboration with

– The Minerva Center for Human Rights – Tel Aviv University
– Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
– The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism
– Moreshet – Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust and Research Center
– Polish Institute in Tel Aviv