This publication comprises articles presented at the international conference, "Emanuel Ringelblum: The Man and the Historian," held at Yad Vashem in March 2004, on the 60th anniversary of the murder of this renowned historian by the Germans. The articles focus on Ringelblum's life and activities, addressing the private man, the intellectual, and the universal humanist. They incorporate his worldview, his writings, his social activities and the momentous venture he founded in the Warsaw ghetto - the Oyneg Shabes Archives.This volume also includes the last letters of Emanuel Ringelblum and his wife Jozia Yehudit, writtrn in their hiding place in the Aryan sector of Warsaw to their friends Adolf Abraham and Batya Temkin-Berman. The letters depict life in the bunker and reflect Ringelblum's attempts as self-help as well as his unremitted historical work. The letter written on March 1,1944, a few days before his hiding place was discovered, constitutes Emanuel Ringelblum's last will and testament.

This publication comprises articles presented at the international conference, "Emanuel Ringelblum: The Man and the Historian," held at Yad Vashem in March 2004, on the 60th anniversary of the murder of this renowned historian by the Germans. The articles focus on Ringelblum's life and activities, addressing the private man, the intellectual, and the universal humanist. They incorporate his worldview, his writings, his social activities and the momentous venture he founded in the Warsaw ghetto - the Oyneg Shabes Archives.This volume also includes the last letters of Emanuel Ringelblum and his wife Jozia Yehudit, writtrn in their hiding place in the Aryan sector of Warsaw to their friends Adolf Abraham and Batya Temkin-Berman. The letters depict life in the bunker and reflect Ringelblum's attempts as self-help as well as his unremitted historical work. The letter written on March 1,1944, a few days before his hiding place was discovered, constitutes Emanuel Ringelblum's last will and testament.