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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 ...
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 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.
Apr 20, 2024 · During World War II, they placed their lives in danger by secretly hiding thousands of important papers and art. Germany’s Nazi Party had decided these historical documents were not worth keeping and planned to destr.
Dec 8, 2018 · 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.
Feb 9, 2021 · The Paper Brigade: Saving the archives of Jewish Vilna. During the Holocaust, a group of writers and scholars in the Vilna ghetto were tasked by the Nazis with sorting through the city's Jewish archives.
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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….
