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The Paper Brigade was the name given to a group of residents of the Vilna Ghetto who hid a large cache of Jewish cultural items from YIVO (the Yiddish Scientific Institute), saving them from destruction or theft by Nazi Germany. Established in 1942 and led by Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski, the group smuggled books, paintings and ...
The Paper Brigade was a group of 40 Jewish poets, writers and intellectuals who during the Nazi occupation of Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, risked their lives to save the city’s Jewish library collections from destruction in Poland, Belarus and Russia.
Jun 25, 2021 · The moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states. Director : Diane Perelsztejn. Photo : Philippe Vandendriessche. Experts : Bernard Suchecky.
Known as “The Paper Brigade,” they were a group of slave laborers who smuggled and hid rare books and manuscripts in the midst of the Holocaust. Theirs is an incredible story of cultural resistance in the face of almost certain death.
The moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states. Original title: La Brigade des Papiers. Year: 2018. Length:
Jan 6, 2022 · A brave group of Jewish men and women worked to preserve the records of Jewish life in Lithuania, despite the threat to their lives. Now, 80 years on, the documents are online at last. BY Jenni ...
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Dec 16, 2012 · During WWII, a small group of Jewish scholars called “the paper brigade” waged a modern Maccabean revolt in an effort to preserve Yiddish literature.
