The Book Smugglers: How Partisan Poets Saved Jewish Cultural Treasures from the Nazis
10 hrs. 9 min.
Language
Russian
Author
David Fishman
Author
David Fishman
Narrator
Vadim Pugachev
Narrator
Vadim Pugachev
Description
We rarely talk about the fact that the Holocaust was also the destruction of culture. Millions of Jewish books, manuscripts, and works of art were burned or thrown away. Hundreds of thousands of invaluable items were transported to special libraries and institutes in Germany with the aim of studying the race they intended to erase from the face of the earth.
In the mesmerizing rhythm, the book “Book Smugglers” tells an almost unbelievable story of prisoners in the Vilna ghetto—“the Lithuanian Jerusalem”—who saved thousands of rare books and manuscripts: first from the Nazis, and then from the Soviets, hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders.
This is a story of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, of unwavering devotion and the willingness to risk one’s life, of true love for literature and art. It’s a story about people who did not allow their culture to be trampled and burned. It’s a chronicle of the most dangerous operation carried out by poets who became partisans and by scholars who became smugglers. It’s a story of men and women who in practice demonstrated their unbreakable commitment to literature and art—and for that risked their lives. It’s a story of confrontation between two of the bloodiest regimes in history.
In the mesmerizing rhythm, the book “Book Smugglers” tells an almost unbelievable story of prisoners in the Vilna ghetto—“the Lithuanian Jerusalem”—who saved thousands of rare books and manuscripts: first from the Nazis, and then from the Soviets, hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders.
This is a story of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, of unwavering devotion and the willingness to risk one’s life, of true love for literature and art. It’s a story about people who did not allow their culture to be trampled and burned. It’s a chronicle of the most dangerous operation carried out by poets who became partisans and by scholars who became smugglers. It’s a story of men and women who in practice demonstrated their unbreakable commitment to literature and art—and for that risked their lives. It’s a story of confrontation between two of the bloodiest regimes in history.
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