BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:November 1940 Days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the W arsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. This clandestine group, known by the code name Oyn eg Shabes, vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists , but rather with pen and paper. They commissioned diaries, essays, jokes, poems, and songs.They documented Nazi atrocities with eyewitness accounts .They sent reports of mass murder to London via the Polish underground. Th en, as trains deported them to the gas chambers of Treblinka, and the Ghet to burned to the ground, they buried 60,000 pages of documentation in milk cans and tin boxes in hope that the archive would survive the war, even i f they did not. The film honors the Oyneg Shabes members' determination to create what became the most important cache of eyewitness accounts to sur vive WW II. It captures both humor and despair, their desparation and ange r, and their iron resolve to retain their humanity in the face of unspeaka ble hardship. Ultimately, it has preserved the actions, events and experie nces of those who stand up, fight back and, as one Oyneg Shabes member wro te, "scream truth to the world." Open to the UMassD campus community.\nEve nt page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/10-21-26-who-will-write-our-his tory-.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

November 1940

Days afte r the Nazis sealed 450\,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto\, a secret band of j ournalists\, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. This cl andestine group\, known by the code name Oyneg Shabes\, vowed to defeat Na zi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists\, but rather with pen and pa per.

They commissioned diaries\, essays\, jokes\, poems\, and song s.
They documented Nazi atrocities with eyewitness accounts.
They se nt reports of mass murder to London via the Polish underground.

Th en\, as trains deported them to the gas chambers of Treblinka\, and the Gh etto burned to the ground\, they buried 60\,000 pages of documentation in milk cans and tin boxes in hope that the archive would survive the war\, e ven if they did not.

The film honors the Oyneg Shabes members' det ermination to create what became the most important cache of eyewitness ac counts to survive WW II. It captures both humor and despair\, their despar ation and anger\, and their iron resolve to retain their humanity in the f ace of unspeakable hardship. Ultimately\, it has preserved the actions\, e vents and experiences of those who stand up\, fight back and\, as one Oyne g Shabes member wrote\, "scream truth to the world."

Open to the U MassD campus community.

Event page: https://www.umassd.ed u/events/cms/10-21-26-who-will-write-our-history-.php

DTSTAMP:20261016T155946 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T180000 LOCATION:Claire T. Carney Library, Room 206 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:History Department Documentary Screening: Who Will W rite Our History? UID:a047faa14bfa153216930ff599636169@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR