Strashun Library books being conserved at the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project.

View of St. George Church in Vilnius from Gediminas Prospekt. It was in this church that the Strashun Library books remained hidden for over 40 years.

St. George Church in Vilnius. It was in this church that the Strashun Library books remained hidden for over 40 years.

YIVO Director of Library and Archives Lyudmila Sholokhova and National Library of Lithuania Kristina Dudaite in the Bibliographic Center at the St. George Church in Vilnius. It was here that the Strashun Library books remained hidden for over 40…

Bibliographic Center at St. George Church in Vilnius. Books stored in the nave. It was here that the Strashun Library books remained hidden for over 40 years.

Hebrew Books at the Martynas Mazvydas National Library Bibliographic Center of Lithuania awaiting conservation for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project.

Strashun library book being digitized for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project in New York by Smooth Solutions, Inc.

Strashun library book being digitized for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project in New York.

Officials and staff of YIVO inspecting crates of materials rescued from Frankfurt-am-Main by the U.S. Army and shipped to YIVO in New York. The books and documents were looted by the Nazis during World War II.

Stamp of the private library of Matityahu Strashun