Exhibits
SPECIAL EXHIBIT
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
January 19 – May 19, 2024
Would you risk your life to save a book? The Paper Brigade of Vilna was a dedicated group of Jewish heroes whose goal was to rescue Vilna's Jewish culture for future generations. A true story of bravery and resistance to inhumanity and persecution. This exhibit documents the nearly unbelievable true story of ghetto residents who, through brave acts of resistance, powerful friendships, and devotion to literature, rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts - first from the Nazis, then from the Soviets - by hiding them, burying them and smuggling them into the Vilna Ghetto, and later, across borders.Â
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