Paper Brigade
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title:
Paper Brigade
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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, 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 sculptures past Nazi guards and hid them in various locations in and around the Ghetto. After the Ghetto's liquidation, surviving members of the group fled to join the Jewish partisans, even
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1940s resistance organisation in Vilna
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Brigade
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2023-03-25T03:18:05Z
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