Ringelblum Archive

The Ringelblum Archive is a collection of documents and records kept by Jewish resistance during the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. Organized by historian and community leader Emanuel Ringelblum and his team, it includes diaries, letters, photographs, and notes that document daily life, struggles, and resistance efforts from 1939 to 1943. Hidden in milk cans and containers in the Warsaw Ghetto, the archive aimed to preserve evidence of Jewish life and suffering for future generations. Despite the destruction during the ghetto's liquidation, much of the archive was preserved and recovered after the war, providing crucial historical insight into that tragic period.