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Jewish Central Education Committee in Vilna

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As home to a large Jewish community the city of Vilna (Lithuania) offered a variety of educational institutions that catered to different parts of the city’s Jewish population. The Central Education Committee (ZBK or TsBK) provided secular education services in Yiddish, these encompassed multiple levels from kindergartens through high schools. The educational efforts of the ZBK eventually led to the high school receiving recognition from the government which permitted graduates to continue on at the university level. Beyond running schools the ZBK was also active in publishing books and other printed materials in Yiddish – and as this book stamp demonstrates – running libraries as well. ..This book stamp is from a book looted by the Nazis and sorted by Colonel Seymour Pomrenze, one of “the Monuments Men,” at the Offenbach Archival Depot. ..There are two scrapbooks of archival markings from the books sorted at the Offenbach Depot in the Seymour Pomrenze Collection held by the American Jewish Historical Society (Call number P-933) There is a finding aid for the collection here ( http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1463157 ) The digitized scrapbooks are available here ( http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1666403 ) and here ( http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1665570 ) ...For more information on this project check the Center’s blog: 16thstreet.tumblr.com/tagged/Offenbach-Depot ( http://16thstreet.tumblr.com/tagged/Offenbach-Depot ) ..Dr. Mitch Fraas, Acting Director of the Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' Special Collections Center is working on a similar project for the German book stamps based on NARA microfilm of the volumes the American Jewish Historical Society currently holds. See viewshare.org/views/mfraas/offenbach-bookplates/ ( http://viewshare.org/views/mfraas/offenbach-bookplates/ ) .The Center for Jewish History would like to acknowledge the following: The American Jewish Historical Society, who graciously allowed the use of their archival materials and digital content; Mitch Fraas, Acting Director of the Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries' Special Collections Center, for his data and technical assistance in this project; David Rosenberg, Senior Manager for Communications, and Melanie Meyers, Senior Reference Services Librarian for Special Collections, for managing and creating the digital map; as well as Reference Services Librarian Zachary Loeb and Reference Services Assistant Ilya Slavutskiy for their work on translating and mapping. ..For copyright information, click here ( http://copyrights.cjh.org )

Book stamps from books looted by the Nazis and sorted by Colonel Seymour Pomrenze, one of “the Monuments Men,” at the Offenbach Archival Depot. There are two scrapbooks of archival markings from the books sorted at the Offenbach Depot in the Seymour Pomrenze Collection held by the American Jewish Historical Society

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1939 - 1945
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Vilniaus g. 32, Vilnius 01131, Lithuania54.68066, 25.28231
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American Jewish Historical Society
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