National Library Database & Reference Librarian Daniel Lipson, has spent years painstakingly locating the tens of thousands of books in the library’s collections that were stolen by Nazis, survived the war, and then made their ways to Israel. Just ahead of International Holocaust Day, he tells us why.
This is a segment from The “All You Protest Kids” Edition.
Excellent! I very much enjoyed the podcast about the national Library. I worked there for many years as a librarian 40 year ago and never knew any of this history. Thank you
Thanks for writing, Yehudit! I appreciate your taking the time (and I have to agree that the story that Daniel Lipson told, and what he is doing, if remarkable).
Warmest,
Noah
This was profoundly moving and enlightening . I am wondering a) if the Diaspora Treasures books that were distributed among other institutions/libraries in Israel at that time are also part of this project; b) if there has been any instances where the original owner of the book survived the Shoah and was reunited with his/her book… …. Thank you for bringing this important work to our attention
Trying to find books distributed throughout the country is something that I would like to do one day bur doubt it will be a very successful project. The books would have been sent to so many different places and today, 70 years later, probably very few of them are still around.
It isn’t part of the project, but I was able to identify the owners of a couple of books. Unfortunately both were killed in the Holocaust. You can read about one of them here: https://blog.nli.org.il/en/bar-mitzvah-gift/
Thanks for writing, Yehudit! I appreciate your taking the time (and I have to agree that the story that Daniel Lipson told, and what he is doing, if remarkable).
Warmest,
Noah