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- Title
The Underground Library.
- Authors
Putzke, Emily
- Abstract
The article focuses on an underground children's library set up by Jewish librarian Basia Berman after a ghetto was established by the Nazis in 1940 enclosing several Polish Jews into a small area of Warsaw surrounded by brick walls. Topics include the promulgation of several anti-Jewish laws following Nazis' occupation of Warsaw in 1939 such as limiting access to books, book collections that can be found in the secret library and the escape of Berman and her husband from the ghetto in 1942.
- Subjects
WARSAW (Poland); CHILDREN'S libraries; JEWISH librarians; POLISH Jews; JEWISH ghettos; NAZIS; POLISH history
- Publication
History Today, 2022, Vol 72, Issue 6, p18
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article