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Some of the others who helped Abba in the Ghetto

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There was a secret meeting on Dec 31st where many of the youth groups and activists for resistance came together to discuss resisting. They did not all agree to stay and fight, but Abba Kovner took it upon himself to convince and beg the remaining Ghetto inhabitants to rise up and fight from within ghetto itself.

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After the war, he started a mass retaliation against the Germans. This effort was doomed and costed him alot of wasted time. He also started helping survivors to make their way to the land of Israel, and he settled there too. Although he never obtained a major political role in Israel, he did become, one of the most powerful and authoritative witnesses to the Holocaust.

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Check out a brief segment from one of my character impersonations (complete with feigned Polish accent). Meet Abba Kovner, a dynamic Jewish ghetto fighter during the darkest days of the Holocaust. Here he is at the end of the tragedy, issuing a warning, that the threat of genocide didn't end with the death of Hitler.

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"And when the troops herded the whole suffering, tortured, weeping mass of people into the narrow streets of the ghetto, into those seven narrow stinking streets, and locked the walls that had been built, behind them, everyone suddenly sighed with relief. They left behind them days of fear and horror; and ahead of them were deprivation, hunger and suffering - but now they felt more secure, less afraid. Almost no one believed that it would be possible to kill off all of them, all those thousands and tens of thousands, the Jews of Vilna, Kovno, Bialystok, and Warsaw - the millions, with their women and children."

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When WWII began, he became active with the underground. This was in 1940 and 1941.

Kovner was responsible for writing a call to revolt. In front of the 150 attendees gathered together at 2 Straszuna Street in a public soup kitchen, Abba proclaimed an infamous quote.

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("The Story Of Abba Kovner - Revolt & Resistance Www.Holocaustresearchproject.Org")

"Nazi Resistance By The Jews Of Vilna". Thoughtco, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/abba-kovner-and-resistance-in-vilna-ghetto-1779665.

"Abba Kovner | My Jewish Learning". My Jewish Learning, 2019, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abba-kovner/.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSijGzkMWw

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NOTEABLE QUOTE FROM ABBA KOVNER ABOUT THE VIOLENCE IN THE GHETTO

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NOTEABLE QUOTE FROM ABBA KOVNER ABOUT THE VIOLENCE IN THE GHETTO

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"A woman who was holding something in her arms. One of them directed a beam of light into her face, the other one dragged her by her hair and threw her on the pavement.   Then the infant fell out of her arms. One of the two, the one with the flashlight, I believe, took the infant, raised him into the air, grabbed him by the leg. The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall!"

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In the summer and fall of 1943, Kovner and all of his resistance fighters carried out acts of sabotage against the German military trains and equipment transports. They also set up an illegal printing press outside of the ghetto.

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This was a ghetto established and ran by Nazi Germany. Abba was required to live here, but managed to escape. He untimately returned with friends and started a revolt

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Abba Kovner was born in 1918 in Sebastopol, Crimea. He grew up as a typical Jewish boy.