The book smugglers : partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis / David E. Fishman.

• 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, friendship and romance, unwavering devotion to literature and art, and the protagonists' readiness to risk their life for them. 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." Here is an epic story of human-scale heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war. 

Ämnesord

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  (sao)

Förintelsen  (sao)

Konststölder  (sao)

Kulturarvsskydd  (sao)

Judisk konst  (sao)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)  -- Europe. (LCSH)

Art thefts.  (fast)

Cultural property  -- Destruction and pillage. (fast)

Cultural property  -- Protection. (fast)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)  (LCSH)

Art thefts  (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  (LCSH)

Art, Jewish  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Litauen  -- Vilnius (sao)

Europe.  (fast)

Lithuania  -- Vilnius. (fast)

1939-1945  (fast)

Personnamn

Kaczerginski, Szmerke, 1908-1954.

Klassifikation

940.53/18132 (DDC)

Koafh-a.54 (kssb/8 (machine generated))