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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.
Dec 8, 2018 · Under the most harrowing conditions, they saved numerous cultural treasures — first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets. 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.
Jan 6, 2022 · The Paper Brigade's death-defying mission. A brave group of Jewish men and women worked to preserve the records of Jewish life in Lithuania, despite the threat to their lives.
Nov 13, 2022 · The Paper Brigade: Rescuing cultural artifacts during and after WWII. By Jon Wertheim. November 13, 2022 / 6:52 PM EST / CBS News. The horrors of the Holocaust were met with various forms of...
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During WWII, a small group of Jewish scholars called “the paper brigade” waged a modern Maccabean revolt in an effort to preserve Yiddish literature.
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.
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.
