The Strashun Library of Vilna
Rescued from the Ashes

Rescue of a Book

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Title

Rescue of a Book

Subject

Strashun Library
Sutzkever, Abraham
Kaczerginski, Shmerke
World War II -- Nazi Looting

Description

Label in a book in the YIVO Library:
From the Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection at YIVO

This book is from the YIVO Library in Vilna. During the years of the destruction, friends of YIVO hid it from the Germans, and after the war A. Sutzkever and Sh. Kaczerginski sent it to YIVO in New York.

There is special collection of books and documents rescued by the poets and partisans Abraham Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski at YIVO.

Creator

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Source

YIVO Library

Publisher

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Language

Yiddish

Type

Book

Identifier

yl-000004108

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Citation

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, “Rescue of a Book,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 21, 2024, https://exhibitions.yivo.org/items/show/2889.
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