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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
In October 1944 the Załuski Library, the oldest public library in Poland and one of the oldest and most important libraries in Europe (established in 1747), was burned down. [14] Out of about 400,000 printed items, maps and manuscripts , only some 1,800 manuscripts and 30,000 printed materials survived.
Krasiński Library (Biblioteka Krasińskich w Warszawie) was a library in Warsaw, founded in 1844. During the German invasion and occupation of Poland, part of the building was destroyed and its collections were stolen, redistributed, or burned. Its surviving collections are now at the National Library of Poland.
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R&A sent agents to hunt through libraries and confiscate and copy whatever maps they could. The New York Public Library became a virtual outpost of the OSS, with map librarians dividing their time ...
List of landmarks destroyed or damaged by climate change; List of destroyed libraries; List of libraries damaged during World War II; List of demolished buildings and structures in Columbus, Ohio; List of demolished buildings and structures in New York City
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 ...