loved ones back home, due to inaccessibility of paper. Examples of these letters from Latvian victims of the Soviet regime are included in the UNESCO "Memory of the World" heritage list. During World War II, propaganda newspapers and leaflets published by guerilla fighters were sometimes printed on birch bark due to shortage of paper. See also See the Old Novgorod dialect article for samples of some texts Onfim – boy from medieval Novgorod, famous for his birch bark drawings Bryggen inscriptions, documents of the same age found in Bergen, Norway Wiigwaasabak – birch bark scrolls of the Ojibwa people Palm-leaf manuscript Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Russian archaeology List of Russian archaeologists References External links Gandhari.org Complete Corpus, Catalog, Bibliography and Dictionary of Gāndhārī texts British Library Gandharan Scrolls The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project at University of Washington University of Chicago Novgorodian Scrolls 956 Russian birch bark documents with modern translations Devīkavaca at Cambridge University Library Stemmen op Boombast, monograph by Jos Schaeken on the Novgorod beretsy (free download) Archaeological corpora Betula Brahmic scripts Early Buddhist texts Gandhara Novgorod Republic Old East Slavic inscriptions Sanskrit texts Slavic culture