"The Paper Brigade" by Diane Perelsztejn In preview

Persistence, 2001 by Samuel Bak. Image courtesy of Pucker Gallery – www.puckergallery.com. In agreement with the right-holder: “the image cannot be cropped, and cannot be overprinted”. (image extracted from the film)

Save the books. The Paper Brigade tells the fight for the preservation of culture in the face of its destruction by the Nazis. From September 1941 to September 1943, 40 Jewish intellectuals imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto (Vilnius) were forced to participate in the destruction and spoliation of Jewish and non-Jewish cultural treasures. Risking their lives, they manage to conceal and save a part of the most precious collections of Jewish culture and life.

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