The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project, an international project to preserve, digitize, and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, established (or created) a dedicated web portal enabling scholars, researchers, and the general public access to these historic documents. The project also digitized parts of the Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar private libraries of Europe.
The project was a partnership between the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Lithuanian Central State Archives, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, and the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and included the cataloging, conservation, and digitization of documents and books in both New York and Vilnius.
In May 2017, some 170,000 pages of previously unknown documents, lost to history for almost 70 years, were discovered in Vilnius, significantly expanding the original scope of the project.
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