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Abba Kovner was a great part in the resistance movement. He was born in 1918 in Sebastopol, Crimea, on the shores of the black sea.Abba attended the University of Vilna as an art student, learning to sculpt. and later developed a passion for poetry.

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He was raised in Vilna as a kid and enjoyed reading and writing. Abba attended the University of Vilna as an art student, learning to sculpt, and later developed a passion for poetry. Like alot of other boys his age Abba became interested in the Zionist movement and joined a local youth group, the "Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'r". However Abba Kovners' destiny would be anything from typical, and the Nazi war machine would ensure that was to be the case.

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Less than a month after the Germans occupied Vilna, they conducted their first Aktion. Einsatzkommando 9 rounded up 5,000 Jewish men of Vilna and took them to Ponary, an abandoned Soviet oil storage facility with large pits designed to house fuel.

During the summer and fall of 1943, Kovner and his resistance fighters carry out acts of sabotage against German military trains and equipment transports, and even set up an illegal printing press outside of the ghetto.

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Partisans of Vilna | Heartstrings. Music of the Holocaust

Yad Vashem

https://www.yadvashem.org › exhibitions › partisans-of-...

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One Living Word

No more willful silences.
No more verbal contact, he who loved to listen to so many will never again hear his own voice among them.

He will sit with his friends over talk from now on under constraint.
The talk. The thoughts. The friends.
And as he listens through the secret door he will turn his inner ear to the dark mumur: Son of man,
all this and all this never was and never will be
as good as one living word.

-Abba Kovner

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Kovner and hundreds of the ghetto fighters escaped through the city’s sewers and other outlets to the Rudniky forests where they joined Soviet partisans in many combat missions. There Kovner and his followers operated a partisan division comprised 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 was one of the only people to live in his first resistance group.

He was the most popular person in his first resistance group.

He had many insperational quotes.

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www.HolocaustResearchProject.org

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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 establish ties to the Soviet resistance in the city and the forests. Kovner also sent emissaries to the Warsaw and Bialystok ghettos to warn the inhabitants about the mass killings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union and to incite resistance.Kovne made a concerted effort to try and persuade the ghetto residents not to gather for the deportation because they were in actuality being sent to their deaths.

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One of their key goals was to establish ties to the Soviet resistance in the city and the forests.In 1961 Kovner testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann and later dedicated his life to poetry. After the initial skirmish with the Germans, Abba tried to prevent further destruction by offering to provide additional Jews for forced labor in Estonia.