When Nazis Hired Jewish Intellectuals To Assemble A Yiddish Archive, The Scholars Hid The Best Stuff (Which Is Now Found)

“In one of their odder and more chilling moves, the Nazis occupying Lithuania once collected Yiddish and Hebrew books and documents, hoping to create a reference collection about a people they intended to annihilate. Even stranger, they appointed Jewish intellectuals and poets to select the choicest pearls for study.”