Warsaw and Vilna Ghetto expert Dr. Samuel Kassow tells the story of Rokhl Auerbach, one of the three surviving members of the Oyneg Shabbes Archive (depicted in the film Who Will Write Our History, which we screened last year at The Vilna).
Auerbach’s tales of both the Ghetto and the Aryan side of the occupied city provide an unmatched portrait of the last days of Warsaw’s Yiddish literary and cultural community— and of her own struggle to survive.
Copies of Rokhl’s memoir Warsaw Testament, translated by Samuel Kassow, will be available for sale.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Book Council and the Yiddish Book Center.
Samuel Kassow, Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been a visiting professor at many institutions and helped plan the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among his various publications is Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (Indiana University Press, 2007).
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