Related sources:
Rokhl Auerbach on Taras Shevchenko, 1936
The article "Memories of Taras Shevchenko" was published on April 26, 1936, in the weekly Opinia. This was a Jewish newspaper, ideologically close to Zionism, published in Polish from 1933 to 1939. The editorial staff of the weekly initially worked in Warsaw but, in 1936, due to censorship problems, was forced to move to Lviv. The author of the article was Rokhl Auerbakh, known primarily as one of the archivists of the Oyneg Shabes organization (in Hebrew, "Joy of Saturday"), which collected documents and testimonies on the initiative of historian Emanuel Ringelblum, and as the organizer of a kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto. She devoted her entire post-war life to researching and honoring...