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Map of Vilna Ghetto (small ghetto, in olive-green) In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the Vilnius Old Town and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by SS Einsatzkommando 9 Oberscharführer Horst Schweinberger under orders ...
The current headquarters of YIVO, whose archives the Brigade helped save. The Paper Brigade was the name given to a group of residents of the Vilna Ghetto who hid a large cache of Jewish cultural items from YIVO (the Yiddish Scientific Institute), saving them from destruction or theft by Nazi Germany.
Abba Kovner (back row, centre) with members of the FPO in Vilna. The Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (Yiddish: פֿאַראײניקטע פּאַרטיזאַנער אָרגאַניזאַציע ; "United Partisan Organization"; Lithuanian: Jungtinė Partizanų Organizacija; referred to as FPO by its Yiddish initials) was a Jewish resistance organization based in the Vilna Ghetto in ...
As part of the “Paper Brigade,” which he formed alongside fellow poet Szmerke Kaczerginski, Sutzkever rescued literary documents from the Jewish community of Vilna, Poland, where he had been ...
Mendel Balberyszski (October 5, 1894 in Vilnius – November 19, 1966 in Melbourne) was a Lithuanian Jew, Polish politician and survivor of the Holocaust in Lithuania.He is chiefly known today as the biographer [1] of the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto in his book Stronger Than Iron – The Destruction of Vilna Jewry 1941-1945: An Eyewitness Account.
He was the commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO), a resistance group in the Vilna Ghetto which was preparing an uprising should the final moments of the ghetto come. When the Germans learned about the existence of a Communist, Wittenberg, in the ghetto, they made a request to the head of the Jewish council , Jacob Gens ...
Jacob Gens Born 1 April 1903 Ilgviečiai [lt], Russian Empire Died 14 September 1943 (1943-09-14) (aged 40) Vilnius, German-occupied Lithuania Cause of death Execution by shooting Nationality Lithuanian Known for Head of the Jewish Ghetto Police of the Vilnius Ghetto Head of the Vilnius Ghetto Jacob Gens [a] (1 April 1903 – 14 September 1943) was the head of the Vilnius Ghetto government ...
“It’s just such a remarkable story. But nobody had really done it.”