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BOOK
Title The book smugglers : partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis / David E. Fishman
Imprint Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, 2018
©2017

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  940.53 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 25 cm
Note On cover: "The true story of the Paper Brigade of Vilnia"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts - first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets - by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, friendship and romance, unwavering devotion to literature and art, and the protagonists' readiness to risk their life for them. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." Here is an epic story of human-scale heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war
Subject Kaczerginski, Szmerke, 1908-1954.
1939-1945
Andra världskriget 1939-1945
Förintelsen
Konststölder
Kulturarvsskydd
Judisk konst
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe
Art thefts.
Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage.
Cultural property -- Protection.
Europa
Litauen -- Vilnius
Europe.
Lithuania -- Vilnius.
Classmark 940.53/18132
ISBN/ISSN 9781512603309 (paperback)
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