Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Invitation sent by Korczak to Emanuel Ringelblum and his wife for a Seder celebration on April 1, 1942 in the Orphanage. It was then housed in the interim location at 16 Sienna Street / 9 Sliska Street.


From Gazeta Żydowska, April 12, 1942. Description of the Seder at Korczak's Dom Sierot. Korczak ended his talk with Shalom... The author of the article, Herman Czerwinski, was a former reporter and collaborator with 'Nasz Przeglad'.
Invitation sent by Korczak to Emanuel Ringelblum and his wife for a Seder celebration on April 1, 1942, in the Orphanage. It was then housed in the interim location at 16 Sienna Street / 9 Sliska Street.

Here, at 18 Leszno Street, lived the famous Emanuel Ringelblum. Earlier, Korczak also lived there with his mother and sister.

Invitation sent by Korczak to Emanuel Ringelblum and his wife for a Seder celebration on April 1, 1942 in the Orphanage. It was then housed in the interim location at 16 Sienna Street / 9 Sliska Street. The name of Ringelblum is wrongly spelled.

Invitation sent by Korczak to Emanuel Ringelblum and his wife for a Seder celebration on April 1, 1942, in the Orphanage. It was then housed in the interim location at 16 Sienna Street / 9 Sliska Street. 

Emanuel Ringelblum (21.11.1900–10.03.1944) was a historian, educator, and social and political activist known primarily as the creator of the underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto - Oneg Shabbat.

Reports by Oneg Shabbat of the number of Jews that were sent daily from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camp Treblinka. On the first day of the Gross action, July 22 (22.7) 6, 250 were sent to gas chambers. On the next day, 7,300 and on August 5h (5.8) 6,623 - among those deported to death on that day was Janusz Korczak, teachers, and 239 children from the orphanage Dom Sierot.