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May 14, 2024

The Vilna Ghetto Library

Amid the Holocaust, Jews struggled to keep their culture alive.

Most of the Jews whom the Nazis forced into the Vilna Ghetto, which they constructed in 1941, did not survive to the end of World War II. But a surprising number of documents did, which provide—in the form of posters advertising various public events—a record of Jewish attempts to preserve some shreds of normal life. The Seforim Blog describes some of these:

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