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Abba Kovner, disguised as a Jewish Brigade soldier, poses with three others on the steps of the ship that was to take him back to Europe after completing his mission to Palestine on behalf of the Nekama organization.

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The division played a key role in destroying power installations, water infrastructures and supply depots. They blew up German transport trains and even rescued groups of prisoners from the Kalais labor camp.
After the war, Kovner helped organize the Beriha movement, in which hundreds of thousands of survivors made their way west in order to reach Palestine. Kovner and his wife, Vitka Kempner, who was also his partner in the underground movement, settled in Palestine, where he joined the Givati Brigade in order to defend the newly formed state of Israel.

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This song represents how Abba Konver from the day the war started knew he wanted to rise up and survive for justice.

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Destiny's Child - Survivor (Official Video)

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The Story of Abba Kovner - Revolt & Resistance www.HolocaustResearchProject.org

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Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team

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Abba Konver is in the middle and Vitka Kempner in the far right.

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Kovner helped organize the Beriha movement, in which hundreds of thousands of survivors made their way west in order to reach Palestine. Kovner and his wife, Vitka Kempner, who was also his partner in the underground movement, settled in Palestine, where he joined the Givati Brigade in order to defend the newly formed state of Israel they later had two kids.

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Abba Kovner visiting the building where the FPO (United Partisan Organization) had its headquarters in the Vilna ghetto. Photographed after the liberation.

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Kovner and his followers operated a partisan division composed solely of Jews, and performed many heroic acts of sabotage. The division played a key role in destroying power installations, water infrastructures and supply depots. They blew up German transport trains and even rescued groups of prisoners from the Kalais labor camp.

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Abba sent emissaries to the Warsaw and Bialystok ghettos to warn the inhabitants about the mass killings. The occupied Soviet Union and incite resistance groups were helping Jews escape with this information.

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abba briefs members of the IDF in Yad Mordechai during the 1948 Arab Israeli War

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Kovner and his resistance fighters carried out acts of sabotage against German military trains and equipment transports, and even set up an illegal printing press outside of the ghetto.One of their key goals was to establish ties to the Soviet resistance in the city and the forests. This would give them upper ground.

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Picture shows Abba with members of the FPO in Vilna, 1940's

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he SS established two ghettos in Vilna, referred to as Ghetto No. 1 and Ghetto No. 2. The following day they swept through the city and  forced the remaining Jews of Vilna into the newly created ghettos.About 30,000 Jews were forced into Ghetto No. 1 and between 9,000 and 11,000 Jews into Ghetto No. 2.

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 abba  with a Partisan Delegation, 1971. From the Dan Hadani Collection in the National Library of Israel

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On June 22, 1941, Germany launched its surprise attack against the Soviet Union. Two days after that the Germans occupied Vilna. Several thousand Jews fled eastward with the Soviet army, but the rapid German advance traps the majority of the Jews in Vilna.

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 Abba testifying at the trial of Adolf Eichmann

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Abba Kovner Was Born in 1918. Abba was born in Sebastopol, Crimea on the shores of the black Sea. Abba learned alot about all types of  Jewish history and knowledge. Abba went to Vilna university and practiced art, he really liked sculpting.