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. Establ
The current headquarters of YIVO, whose archives the Brigade helped save
Shmerke Kaczerginski (left) and Abraham Sutzkever (right), leaders of the Paper Brigade, in 1930s
Shmerke Kaczerginski with saved books
YIVO
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YIVO is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies
Paper Brigade
…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 (the Yiddish Scientific Institute), saving them from destruction or theft by Nazi Germany. Established in 1942 and led by Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke…
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research