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Jun 25, 2021 · Watch trailer. Genres: Documentary. Duration: 1 hour 36 seconds. Availability: Worldwide. 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.
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.
- Adam Soclof
The Book Smugglers chronicles a little-known chapter from the darkest days of Jewish history: the story of the courageous Jews of the “Paper Brigade,” who risked their lives to rescue thousands of rare books and manuscripts—from the Nazis and the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers in the Vilna Ghetto, and ...
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.
Plot spoiler. The film follows Gunther Wheeler ( Kyle Howard ), who along with his family moves from the large and vast city of New York to the small and quiet suburb of Pleasant Valley, New York. Gunther already shows signs of frustration and discomfort upon settling in.
Dec 11, 2019 · 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.
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The Paper Brigade. The Paper Brigade (also known as Gunther and the Paper Brigade) is a 1996 adventure / comedy film directed by Blair Treu. The film stars Kyle Howard and Robert Englund. The story follows a group of small-town paperboys who band together to prevent bullies from taking over their routes. [ 1]
