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Two hundred libraries in Belarus suffered damage during the war. T. Roschina calculated that 83 per cent of the libraries' collection were plundered, stolen or destroyed. 600,000 of those volumes were subsequently found in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland after the war, but a million other volumes, including rare and old printed volumes, have not been returned.
Destroyed during the World War II bombing of Belgrade, on the order of Adolf Hitler himself. [53] Around 500.000 volumes and all collections of the library were destroyed in one of the largest book bonfires in European history. [54] SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library: Sofia: Bulgaria 1943–1944 Allied bombing Allied air forces
The Nazis destroyed much of Warsaw during World War II: an estimated 16 million books, and about 85% of the city's buildings. [g] The libraries of the University of Warsaw and of the Warsaw Institute of Technology were razed. 14 other libraries were completely burned to the ground.
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The burning of the University of Leuven's library caused the destruction of more than 230,000 books, including 750 medieval manuscripts. [15] Personal libraries and the papers of notaries, solicitors, judges, professors, and physicians were also destroyed. [16] The killings and other acts of brutality took place throughout the next night and ...
Credit - Getty Images. 2024 has seen many devastating budget cuts to libraries. Earlier this year, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams proposed to cut more than $58 million from the city’s libraries.
On 10 May 1934, one year after the mass book burnings, the German Freedom Library founded by Alfred Kantorowicz was opened to assemble copies of the books that had been destroyed. [23] Because of the shift in political power and the blatant control and censorship demonstrated by the Nazi Party, 1933 saw a “mass exodus of German writers ...
This library consisted of his family archives and developed into one of Poland's best collections of national heritage. In 1930, the library was established at 9 Okólnik Street. In September 1939, during the German invasion, the central part of the building was destroyed by bombs, damaging the museum, reading room, and reference collection ...