Ona Simaite Papers
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Ona Simaite Papers
Lithuanian librarian and literary critic. Ona Simaite, librarian and literary critic at Vilna University, 1941-44, was involved in clandestine aid to the Jewish ghetto during the German occupation. She was arrested and sent to Dachau and later to a camp in Southern France. Upon liberation she stayed in France and moved from there in l953 to Israel where she remained until her death in l970. Her story forms chapter one of Philip Friedman's Their Brothers' Keepers (New York, l957).
Ona Simaite Papers