The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman

The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

David E. Fishman

312 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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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 ...

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