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Nusakh Vilne Memorial

Sunday Sep 16, 2018 1:00pm
Peddlers under the arch on Jatkowa Street in the Jewish Quarter,
Vilna, c. 1920s-30s. YIVO Archives.
Annual Nusakh Vilne Memorial Program

Sponsored by Nusakh Vilne


Admission: Free

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Join us for our annual event commemorating the Jewish community of Vilna through poetry, music, and presentation. Chaired by Elliot Palevsky, the program will include a short film and discussion with scholar David Fishman on the Paper Brigade, a group of several dozen Jewish intellectuals who risked their lives to save hundreds of thousands of books and documents from destruction during the Holocaust by hiding them in the Vilna ghetto. A reception will follow the presentations.