The Paper Brigade (2018)

overview : Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

Release Date : Mar 15, 2018

Runtime : 1h 0m

Genre : Documentary  History  

Companies : Les Films de la Mémoire, Pois Chiche Films, ARTE GEIE, RTBF, LRT

Countries : Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania

Keywords : holocaust (shoah), world war ii, jew persecution, soviet union, book burning, post world war ii, jewish culture, yiddish language, antisemitism, jewish history, vilnius, lithuania