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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.
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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.
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 ...
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
Jan 5, 2022 · The laborers — the Paper Brigade — did as they were ordered, but they also saved as much as they could, hiding it on their bodies or smuggling it to non-Jewish friends. It was dangerous work,...
Jan 6, 2022 · A seven-year digitization project makes 4 million documents and artifacts available to professional and amateur researchers. A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown...
- Andrew Silow-Carroll
Nov 13, 2022 · Made up mostly of writers and intellectuals living in what is now Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, the members risked death, smuggling artwork, books and rare manuscripts - hiding them in underground...
May 15, 2018 · A group of several dozen Jewish intellectuals known as the Paper Brigade risked their lives to save hundreds of thousands of books and documents from destruc...
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