The book smugglers : partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis.
The Monuments Men for book lovers.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lebanon, NH :
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Before the war
- Shmerke
- the life of the party
- The city of the book
- Under German occupation
- The first assault
- Intellectuals in Hell
- A haven for books and people
- A rescued gem: the record book of the Vilna Gaon's synagogue
- Accomplices or saviors?
- The Nazi, the Bard, and the teacher
- Ponar for books
- The paper brigade
- The art of book smuggling
- A rescued gem: Herzl's diary
- The book and the sword
- Slave-labor curators and scholars
- From the ghetto to the forest
- Death in Estonia
- Miracle from Moscow
- After the war
- From under the ground
- A museum like no other
- A rescued gem: Sholem Aleichem's letters
- Struggling under the Soviets
- Tears in New York
- The decision to leave
- The art of book smuggling
- again
- Rachela's choice
- Parting duties
- A rescued gem: the bust of Tolstoy and other Russians
- Wanderings: Poland and Prague
- Paris
- Return from Offenbach, or Kalmanovitch's prophecy
- From liquidation to redemption
- The path to liquidation
- Later lives
- Forty years in the wilderness
- Grains of wheat.