Editing Book burning (section)

==Books saved from burning==
[[File:NewYorkSocietyForTheSuppressionOfVice.jpg|thumb|right|Symbol of the "[[New York Society for the Suppression of Vice]]", advocating book-burning]]

In Catholic [[hagiography]], Saint [[Vincent of Saragossa]] is mentioned as having been offered his life on condition that he consign Scripture to the fire; he refused and was martyred. He is often depicted holding the book which he protected with his life.

Another book-saving Catholic saint is the 10th-century Saint [[Wiborada]]. She is credited with having predicted in 925 an [[Hungarian invasions of Europe|invasion by the then-pagan Hungarians]] of her region in Switzerland. Her warning allowed the priests and religious of St. Gall and St. Magnus to hide their books and wine and escape into caves in nearby hills.<ref name="library">{{cite mailing list | last =O'Donnell | first =Jim | publisher =[[Georgetown University]] | title =Patron saints | mailing-list =liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu | date =2003-11-20 | url =http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0311/msg00071.html | access-date =2007-05-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211074306/https://library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0311/msg00071.html |archive-date=2012-02-11}}</ref> Wiborada herself refused to escape and was killed by the marauders, being later canonized. In art, she is commonly represented holding a book to signify the library she saved, and is considered a patron saint of [[library|libraries]] and librarians.

[[File:Vitahomosexualis.JPG|thumb|''Vita homosexualis'', a 1902 collection of August Fleischmann's popular pamphlets on [[third gender]] and against [[§175]] - a [[Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee]] library copy, confiscated on 6 May 1933, annotated on the endpaper: '''''By [[Reichspräsident]]'s [[Reichstag Fire Decree|decree of 28.02.1933]] destined for destruction!''''' and hidden from the publique (label "Secr.") as [[Nazi plunder]] by the [[Prussian State Library]].]]

During a tour of Thuringia in 1525, [[Martin Luther]] became enraged at the widespread burning of libraries along with other buildings during the [[German Peasants' War]], writing ''[[Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants]]'' in response.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Luther |first1=Martin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13839632 |title=Luther's Works. |last2=Pelikan |first2=Jaroslav |last3=Oswald |first3=Hilton C |last4=Lehmann |first4=Helmut T |last5=Brown |first5=Christopher Boyd |last6=Mayes |first6=Benjamin T. G |date=1955 |publisher=[[Concordia Publishing House]] |isbn=978-0-570-06410-7 |volume=46 |pages=50–51 |language=English |oclc=13839632 |access-date=7 June 2022 |archive-date=7 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607002012/https://www.worldcat.org/title/luthers-works/oclc/13839632 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire]] the [[Imperial Court Library]] (now [[Austrian National Library]]) was in extreme danger, when the bombardment of Vienna caused the burning of the [[Hofburg]], in which the Imperial Library was located. The fire was halted in a timely manner - saving countless irreplaceable books, diligently collected by many generations of Habsburg emperors and the scholars in their employ.

At the beginning of the [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] in [[World War II]], two German officers – Viennese-born Lt. Col. Julius Schlegel (a Roman Catholic) and Captain Maximilian Becker (a Protestant) – had the foresight to transfer the [[Monte Cassino]] archives to the Vatican. Otherwise the archives – containing a vast number of documents relating to the 1500-years' history of the Abbey as well as some 1,400 irreplaceable manuscript [[Codex|codices]], chiefly [[patristic]] and historical – would have been destroyed in the Allied air bombing which almost completely destroyed the Abbey shortly afterwards. Also saved by the two officers' prompt action were the collections of the [[Keats-Shelley Memorial House]] in Rome, which had been sent to the Abbey for safety in December 1942.

The [[Sarajevo Haggadah]] – one of the oldest and most valuable Jewish [[illustrated manuscript]]s, with immense historical and cultural value – was hidden from the [[Nazism|Nazis]] and their [[Ustaše]] collaborators by [[Derviš Korkut]], chief librarian of the National Museum in [[Sarajevo]].{{sfn|Ovenden|2020|p=163}} At risk to his own life, Korkut smuggled the Haggadah out of Sarajevo and gave it for safekeeping to a Muslim cleric in [[Zenica]], where it was hidden until the end of the war under the floorboards of either a mosque or a Muslim home. The Haggadah again survived destruction during the wars which followed the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://geraldinebrooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Korkut_near-final-pages.pdf|title=The Book of Exodus: A Double Rescue in Wartime Sarajevo|date=3 December 2007|last=Brooks|first=Geraldine|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=31 March 2012|archive-date=28 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828043237/http://geraldinebrooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Korkut_near-final-pages.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> 
 
In 1940s France, a group of anti-fascist exiles created a Library of Burned Books which housed all the books that [[Adolf Hitler]] had destroyed. This library contained copies of titles that were burned by the Nazis in their campaign to cleanse German culture of Jewish and foreign influences such as pacifist and decadent literature. The Nazis themselves planned to make a "museum" of Judaism once the ''[[Final Solution]]'' was complete to house certain books that they had saved.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lyons|first=Martyn|title=Books:A Living History|year=2011|publisher=J.Paul Getty Museum|location=Los Angeles|isbn=9781606060834|pages=200–201}}</ref>