Abraham Sutzkever-Szmerke Kaczerginski Vilna Ghetto Collection (RG 223.1) [Digitized]
Many of the series in this collection concern different aspects of daily life in the Vilna Ghetto that highlight the concept of spiritual resistance. Series XVIII is material from the Ghetto theater. Series XXII is material related to different cultural events such as concerts, lectures, and holiday celebrations. Other series of interest are Series XXIII: Sports Department and the Youth Club, Series XIX: Union of Authors and Actors, and Series XVI: The Library and the Reading Room.
Kehillat Haharedim Records (RG 340)
Association of Orthodox Jews organized in 1936 by Rabbi Schneur Zalmen Schneersohn (Chneerson), to conduct religious and educational activities throughout France. During the German occupation, the organization engaged in underground activities, rescuing and supporting Jews, especially children.
Menashe Unger papers (RG 509)
Menashe Unger was a journalist and writer. He was a staff writer for the Tog-morgn zhurnal and his column "Fun eybikn kval" was devoted mainly to topics such as history of Hasidism, biographies of outstanding personalities in Judaism, and spiritual resistance during the Holocaust.
Papers of Abraham Joachimowicz (RG 1266)
Abraham Joachimowicz was a Yiddish writer who survived the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz. Manuscripts and typescripts of poems with music composed by Henoch Kon, Sholom Secunda, David Beigelman, Michl Gelbart, Samuel Bugatch and others. Included are songs written during the Holocaust period. Some of his poems were set to music in the Lodz ghetto by David Beigelman.
Papers of Albert Dov Sigal (RG 1165)
Albert Dov Sigal was a Jewish artist who specialized in enamel paintings and engraving. During World War II, Sigal conducted an underground art school and took part in the Romanian resistance movement. In 1947, Sigal spent several months in a British detention center in Cyprus. The collection consists of art works by Sigal, clippings, exhibit brochures, photographs of his works. Art works include watercolors and sketches of the internment camp in Cyprus, engraved prints on biblical themes.
Rabbi Leo Baeck Collection (LBIJER 104) [Digitized]
The collection consists of material pertaining to Rabbi Leo Baeck. The material, mostly secondary, was collected by the Leo Baeck Institute’s staff and in some cases bear markings and notes by the Institute’s staff. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943, where he continued his public activity as a rabbi and a community leader.
Flight from fear : a Rabbi's Holocaust memoir / Samuel Cywiak, with Jeff Swesky. United States : Dreamer Publications, 2010.
Jewish adult education in Nazi Germany as spiritual resistance / Ernst Simon. London, 1956.
Judaism is indestructible : a rabbi's Holocaust memoir / Isidore Greengrass with Anna Weinberger. New York : Jewish Heritage, 2002.
Artists against Hitler : persecution, exile, resistance / edited by Gerhard Schoenberner ; [translation, Patricia Crampton]. Bonn : Inter Nationes, 1984.
Spiritual resistance : art from concentration camps, 1940-1945 : a selection of drawings and paintings from the collection of Kibbutz Lochamei HaGhettaot, Israel. New York : Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1978.
Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna ghetto / Rachel Kostanian-Danzig. Vilnius : Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 2004.
Years wherein we have seen evil : selected aspects in the history of religious Jewry during the Holocaust / Havi Ben Sasson and Amos Goldberg. Jerusalem : Yad ṿa-shem, 2003.
