Throughout the bitter days of the Warsaw Ghetto, a clandestine group of researchers compiled a vast archive detailing every aspect of life in this prison city built and then obliterated by the Nazis. Led by a historian, Emanuel Ringelblum, the group then buried the archive for for future generations.
On the hot night of 3 August 1942, 19-year-old David Graber signed
his name on a piece of paper and put it inside a metal box at 68
Nowolipki Street, in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto.
"I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure
will be dug up and scream the truth at the world," he wrote. "May the
treasure fall into good hands, may it last into better times, may it
alarm and alert the world to what happened… in the 20th Century… May
history be our witness."
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