In November 1939, a group of sixty Jewish journalists and writers, refugees from recently-occupied Poland, clandestinely formed the “Committee to Collect Material about the Destruction of Polish Jewry, 1939” in still-independent Vilnius. It was the earliest Jewish collective effort to document German atrocities against Polish Jewry. Scholar Miriam Schulz, the author of a pioneering study on the Vilnius Committee, disusses how she discovered the archive (in the depository of London’s Wiener Library), and its legacy today. Event took place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on March 25, 2019.
