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Rachela Auerbach at the Frontline of the Struggle, with Karolina Szymaniak | Workshop
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Jewish Women’s Archive and POLIN Museum
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History Jewish studiesDescription
Polish-Yiddish writer Rachela Auerbach was a member of the underground Warsaw ghetto Ringelblum Archive. Learn about her work for Jewish Social Self-Help, her documentation efforts as a means of civil resistance, and her post-war works on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Karolina Szymaniak is an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław, and research fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Her edited collection of Auerbach’s ghetto writings received the 2016 Polityka History Award.