The destruction in a bonfire of thousands of volumes of the Jewish library in Shavli, in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, before the eyes of hundreds of Jews who had been driven to the library premises by Nazi soldiers, was disclosed today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee here on the basis of an eye-witness account by a young Lithuanian student who fled the city and joined a Soviet guerrilla band in White Russia.
On the square where the book-burning took place, sceres of Jews and non-Jews were dangling from gallows where they had been hanged the previous day, the young Lithuanian reported.
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