Lithuanian-Israeli poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918–1987)
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Abba Kovner
אבא קובנר
Kovner testifies at the trial of Adolf Eichmann
Born
(1918-03-14)14 March 1918
Ashmyany, Lithuania District, German Empire
Died
25 September 1987(1987-09-25) (aged 69)
Ein HaHoresh, Israel
Nationality
Polish Israeli
Occupation
Poet
Notable work
"Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!"
Political party
Mapam
Spouse
Vitka Kempner
(m. 1946)
Children
2
Abba Kovner (Hebrew: אבא קובנר; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed. He fled into the forest, joined Soviet partisans, and survived the war. After the war, Kovner led Nakam, a paramilitary organization of Holocaust survivors who sought to take genocidal revenge by murdering six million Germans, but Kovner was arrested in British-occupied Germany before he could successfully carry out his plans. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1947, which would become the State of Israel one year later. Considered one of the greatest authors of Modern Hebrew poetry, Kovner was awarded the Israel Prize in 1970.
AbbaKovner (Hebrew: אבא קובנר; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto...
Holocaust. Led by AbbaKovner, the group sought to kill six million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, "a nation for a nation". Kovner went to Mandatory...
Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder AbbaKovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Nakam. Kempner...
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self-defense groups after the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. During the Holocaust, AbbaKovner and other Jewish resistance leaders used the phrase to exhort Jews to...
politician but divorced later, after having two sons together. His cousin AbbaKovner was a well-known Israeli poet and partisan resistance leader during the...
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occupation. In September 1943, the United Partisan Organization, led by AbbaKovner, attempted to start an uprising in the Vilna Ghetto, and later engaged...
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and AbbaKovner's Avengers (Hebrew: לי נקם ושילם: היישוב, השואה וקבוצת הנוקמים של אבא קובנר)...
strangers in the land of Egypt." The initial meaning of the phrase, used by AbbaKovner and other Holocaust survivors, was particular to the Jewish community...
history of the Vilnius Ghetto, including interviewing survivors such as AbbaKovner, and stated "Had I been in the ghetto, I would have been on the side...
prize for her book Beyond the Reaches of Our Soul: The Life and Times of AbbaKovner. In 2010, the book also won a National Jewish Book Award. An Entangled...
raised questions about the roles various groups played during the war. AbbaKovner Kastner's Train Nakam The Pianist (2002 film) World War II Behind Closed...
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occupation. In September 1943, the United Partisan Organization led by AbbaKovner, attempted to start an uprising in the Vilna Ghetto, and later engaged...
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March 1945 she attempted to immigrate to Palestine with partisan leader AbbaKovner. This move proved unsuccessful as the only available route was blocked...
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