Word Smugglers: A Story of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

Plot

The Oyneg Shabes underground archive was the secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Led and organized by Polish Jewish historian, teacher, and social aid worker, Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the Oyneg Shabes archive gathered an enormous amount of material. He and his colleagues wrote about daily life in the ghetto, forced labor, religious life, the fate of Jewish children, smuggling, underground schools, the underground press, cultural resistance, and armed resistance.In the book, Word Smugglers: A Story of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto, Amy McDonald tells the story of the Oyneg Shabes archive from the perspectives of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, Rachel Auerbach, Israel Lichtenstein, David Graber, and Nahum Grzywacz. It is a story about a courageous group of men, women, and young people who chose to resist and fight back against cruelty and fear. This group did not fight back with guns and weapons. They fought back with words, stories, and truth.