The Holocaust and the book : destruction and preservation

Between 1933 and 1945 Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe. Examination of this dark chapter in the history of printing, reading, censorship and libraries. Topics include the development of Nazi censorship policies, the celebrated library of the Vilna ghetto, the confiscation of books from the Sephardic communities in Rome and Salonika, the experience of reading in the ghettos and concentration camps, the rescue of Polish incunabula, the uses of fine printing by the Dutch underground and the suppression of Jewish books and authors in the Soviet Union. The relation of the Nazi book burnings with the destruction of Bosnian libraries in the 1990s. Met lit. opg. en index. vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.