an individual approach. The lack of full documentation often makes it difficult
to determine the final version of events. The least problematic task is to
identify the signatures of the authors on their own texts. This group of documents
is dominated by diaries, a significant number of which were written
in the spring and early summer of 1942. It seems no coincidence that several
of the closest co-workers of Oyneg Shabes began to keep diaries at a similar
time (see table 4).
Nr Name Dates Archival number
1. Rachel Auerbach4 August 1941–26 July 1942 ARG I 405–406
2. Daniel Fligelman 28 May–22 June 1942 ARG I 411
3. Yekhiel Gorny 12 April–22 July 1942 ARG I 414
4. Shimon Huberband 9–19 May 1942 21–29 May 1942 21–27 June 1942 ARG I 420 HWC, 32/3 ARG I 421
5. Abraham Lewin 26 May 1942–16 January 1943 ARG I 431 ARG II 251–252 HWC, 31/11; 32/6; 32/7
6. Unknown 7 June–1 July ARG I 520
7. Unknown 9–17 June 1942 ARG I 521
8. Peretz Opoczynski 10–25 May 1942 1–30 June 1942 ARG I 440, no original
9. Emanuel Ringelblum 1939–1943 ARG I 445–454 ARG II 257–265
11. Mordecai [Schwartzbard] 1939–June 1942 ARG I 462
10. Sh. Shainkinder April–July 1942 ARG I 461
12. Nehemia Tytelman 14–16 May 1941 ARG I 463
13. Hersh Wasser 1 December 1940–10 June 1942 ARG I 467–468
Perhaps the idea of keeping diaries was born during Oyneg Shabes’s
meetings and that the easiest way to carry out the process was to commission
the team’s closest workers to perform that work.
