Edition of documents from the Ringelblum Archive (the underground archive of the warsaw Ghetto) in Stalinist Poland

In this chapter the writers demonstrate how the editorial choices made by the Jewish Historical Institute in using the documents collected in the Warsaw Ghetto constituted de facto self-censorship and this editorial line was assimilated into the official state narrative of World War II. Three volumes of literary works (a collection of short stories by Peretz, a collection of stories by Jehuda Feld and a novel by Zalmen Skalov) published in 1954 and preserved in the Ringelblum Archive are focussed upon in this discussion.