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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.
The Paper Brigade ★★½ 1996 (PG) Fifteen-year-old Gunther (Howard) gets a paper route to pay for the concert tickets he bought to impress a girl. Now he has to contend with his crazy neighbor (Englund) and a gang of bullies, as well as other obstacles.
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
Nov 13, 2022 · But the Paper Brigade had other ideas. They set aside the most significant manuscripts and art, including a sketch by Picasso, and organized a smuggling operation back to the ghetto.
- Correspondent, 60 Minutes
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- Early Communication Gallery
- Johannes Gutenberg Gallery
- Early Newspapers and The Founding of A Nation
- The First Texas Printer and The Making of Texas
- Hearst Newspaper Gallery
- On The Front Page Gallery
- Modern Technology Gallery
- The Printing Museum Theater
This first gallery explores the development of writing, books and paper in some of the earliest civilizations, including the Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and East Asia. As nomadic cultures began to settle and form cities, governments and societies—a need emerge to record properly and mark goods, as well as to facilitate transactions and communi...
Printing in Europe emerged out of the renewed interest and innovations in art, technology, science, and philosophy during the period known as the Renaissance (a French word for “re-birth). It was an era of rebuilding after the Plague (1346-1353), a pandemic that wiped out half of the European population. By 1450, the development of the printing pre...
The story of printing in the United State is woven into the founding of the nation. After the first printing press arrived in the New World in 1638, printers like Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), and John Peter Zenger (1697-1746) pioneered ways to deliver news, knowledge, and political views to their readers. Newspapers bec...
This gallery features documents and artifacts related to the complicated history of the settlement of the land that is now the state of Texas. Printing and printed documents represent practical tools of a government’s authority to create laws, issue currency, and enforce titles of land ownership. The items in this gallery date from approximately 18...
This gallery displays early newspaper equipment, including a 20th century model Linotype machine, invented by Ottmar Merganthaler in 1886. Dubbed by Thomas Edison as “the eighth wonder of the world,” the Linotype drastically changed the speed of production of newspapers and books, and is credited with a sharp increase in literacy rates in the early...
Installation in progress This hall of historic headlines, dating from the 1610s to 2009, mark important historical events, such as the sinking of the Titanic, the 1929 Stock Market Crash, the 1969 Moon Landing, and the election of President Barack Obama.
Much like the innovations in the 21st Century information technology, printing in the 20th century was an arena for creative minds. Printing inventions represented in this gallery exemplify its lasting and widespread impact upon the way people communicated through writing, printing and copying. Modern innovators built upon the foundations of their ...
The museum theater provides an opportunity to view documentary and feature films about and related to printing, including Harvest of Wisdom,a 45-minute video on the history of human communication and the important role of printing.
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.
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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 ...
