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Many have been looking for "The Paper Brigade" on Disney Plus as it was made popular via the disney channel. However it was not originally a disney project....
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- mikeyvp
A brief, fast-paced history of the Paper Brigade, a group of poets and scholars who risked their lives to smuggle Jewish books and materials from YIVO’s coll...
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- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
You can help us keep making these videos by supporting us via Patron: https://www.patreon.com/historyboxWhen he was born in 849 in Wantage, Oxfordshire, Alfr...
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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.
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 Paper Brigade (also known as Gunther and the Paper Brigade) is a 1996 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Blair Treu. The film stars Kyle Howard and Robert Englund. The film follows Gunther Wheeler (Kyle Howard), who moves from the large city of New York City to the quiet suburb of...
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