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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, Of Friendship And Romance, And Of Unwavering Devotion—including The Readiness To Risk One’s Life—to Literature And Art. And It Is Entirely True.^ 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.” The Rescuers Were Pitted Against Johannes Pohl, A Nazi “expert” On The Jews, Who Had Been Dispatched To Vilna By The Nazi Looting Agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, To Organize The Seizure Of The City’s Great Collections Of Jewish Books. Pohl And His Einsatzstab Staff Planned To Ship The Most Valuable Materials To Germany And Incinerate The Rest. The Germans Used Forty Ghetto Inmates As Slave-laborers To Sort, Select, Pack, A

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Author

David E. Fishman

Publisher

Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781512601268

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.43 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14