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Abba Kovner was an Israel poet-writer, and partisan leader. He died at 69 years old of laryngeal cancer. Abba died at Ein HaHoresh, Israel

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Kovner was convinced that Jews could gain self-respect through fighting.

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They fought back a quote he said about fighting back was “Hitler is plotting to destroy all European Jews. Lithuanian Jews will be the first in line. Let us not be led like sheep to the slaughterhouse. It is right, we are weak and without defense, but the only answer to the enemy is resistance!”

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It was the first time that the mass killing of Jews was realized as part of a general plan to kill all the Jews in Europe. It was also the first time that Jews were there to defend themselves

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They  killed the jews but Abba survived

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we are weak and without defense, but the only answer to the enemy is resistance!”

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Abba Kovner “Partisan & Poet”. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, 2011 http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/kovner.html Accessed 16 February 2022.

“Abba Kovner The Jewish writer and fight”. My Jewish Learning ,2000-2002 https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abba-kovner/ Accessed 16 February 2022