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Wyman Brent, initiator of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library, tells how he initially became interested in Jewish culture when he visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Prague's Jewish Quarter, and Vilna (present day Vilnius), known as "Jerusalem of the North."

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Wyman Brent.

This excerpt is in English.

Wyman Brent was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1962.