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June 19, 2018

The Poets and Partisans Who Saved Jewish Books and Documents from the Nazis

The Paper Brigade.

In The Book Smugglers, David Fishman tells the story of a group of literary figures from the Vilna Ghetto, led by the poet and resistance fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski, who risked their lives to save their city’s enormous repository of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction. Cecile Kuznitz writes in her review:

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