Hailed by the New Republic as possibly “the most important book of history that anyone will ever read”, Who Will Write Our History? tells the astounding story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who set up a clandestine operation to collect and preserve 35,000 documents in tin boxes buried underground, to preserve the memory of the Warsaw Ghetto and its inhabitants. Samuel Kassow bears witness to this extraordinary act of defiance in the face of tyranny and to the triumph of history.
Samuel Kassow, the Charles Northam Professor of Judaic Studies at Trinity College, is the author of numerous articles and scholarly talks in English, Russian and Yiddish. He has also lectured and taught in Mexico, Lithuania, Russia and Poland. Professor Kassow is the son of Holocaust survivors and was born in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany.
Born in Berlin, Ben Barkow has worked at the Wiener Library since 1987, becoming its Director in 2001. He is the author of Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library, the general editor of Testaments to the Holocaust, series 1-3, and the co-editor of Novemberpogrom 1938: Die Augenzeugenberichte der Wiener Library, London (November Pogrom 1938: the Eyewitness Accounts of the Wiener Library, London).
