Tajemnica dziennika Szmuela Wintera
The Mystery of Szmuel Winter Diaries

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the wartime diaries of Szmuel (Samuel) Winter, an entrepreneur from Włocławek, a contributor to the YIVO Jewish Science Institute of Vilnius and a civic activist in the Warsaw ghetto, member of Oneg Shabat documentation group and an employee of the Provisioning Section [Zakład Zaopatrywania]. It is made up of four parts: an editorial introduction, a Polish translation of a 1950 article by Bernard Mark published in Bleter far Geshikhte, part of Szmuel Winter’s diaries from the times of the January 1943 operation and segments of a diary read from a copy of the original included in Mark’s article. Bernard Mark’s publications are the only trace of Winter’s diaries, which have been missing since. Winter wrote in the period of the so-called residual ghetto after the huge liquidation campaign – the entries come from December 1942 through March 1943 and concern chiefly the situation in the ghetto and the general political situation, the activities of the Provisioning Section and the Jewish Council, the January 1943 operation, the resistance movement (both ŻOB and ŻZW), the assessment of the activities of the Polish and the Jewish underground, the financing of ŻOB, the work of Oneg Shabat, the escapes to the “Aryan” side.

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