February 23, 2001
'The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation'
In the ghetto of Nazi-occupied Vilna, Lithuania, Gershon Abramovitsh built a bunker. Some 60 feet underground, the spot was planned as a hiding place for the engineer's paralyzed mother, says David E. Fishman. But her son agreed that she could share the space with the secret cargo of the ghetto's "paper brigade." Dedicated to preserving Jewish culture, the brigade smuggled books, documents, and religious objects to be hidden in the ghetto or left with trusted non-Jewish friends.
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