https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f The story of a young man who decided to stand up to the Nazi's and try to make things right. en-us 2019-11-27 20:04:13 UTC 2025-03-20 14:02:43 UTC hello@padlet.com afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417261016 "Jewish youth! Do not trust those who are trying to deceive you. Hitler plans to destroy all the Jews of Europe... We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter! True, we are weak and defenseless, but the only reply to the murderer is revolt! Brothers! Better to fall as free fighters than to live by the mercy of the murders. Arise! Arise with your last breath!" -- Abba Kovner, December 31, 1941]]> 2019-11-27 20:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417261016 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417268487 2019-11-27 20:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417268487 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417269423 Article about Abba Kovner by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]> 2019-11-27 20:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417269423 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417272618 Kovner recites his 1942 manifesto at the Trial of Adolf Eichmann---"Cast aside all illusions. your children, your husbands, and your wives are no longer alive. Ponary is not a work camp- They were all shot there. Hitler is scheming to annihilate all of European Jewry. Let us not go like sheep to the slaughter! It is true that we are weak and defenseless , but the only response to the enemy is resistance!"]]> 2019-11-27 21:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417272618 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417276216 The Ponary Massacre was the liquidation of nearly 100,000 people, this group of people were mostly of Jewish, Polish, and Russian ethnicity were killed here. The murders took place from July, 1941, and August, 1944, near the central train station of Ponary.]]> 2019-11-27 21:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417276216 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417276314 Ponary (Pronounced: Poh-Nar) Was passed off as a Jewish work camp, but was actually a Jewish killing camp, and whoever was sent there was eventually shot to death.]]> 2019-11-27 21:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417276314 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417281316 2019-11-27 21:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417281316 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417283856 2019-11-27 22:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417283856 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417284129 When Abba was walking through Vilna, he heard a commotion, and decided to look through a window and he reported what he saw to some of his friends, "A woman was holding something in her arms. One of them (A Nazi soldier) directed a beam of light a into her face, the other dragged her by her hair and threw her on the pavement. Then the infant flew out of her arms. One of the two, the one with the flashlight, I believe, took the infant, raised him into the air, grabbing 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!"]]> 2019-11-27 22:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417284129 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417546558 Abba's plan to stand up to the Nazi's was very well thought out, along with some quick turns, once when they were scouting, Abba and some of his comrade's blew up a German train.]]> 2019-11-28 17:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/417546558 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/418635235 This is one poem of many written by Abba Kovner, "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.
As he listens through the secret door he will turn his inner ear to the dark murmur: Son of man, all this and all this never was and never will be, as good as one living word."- Abba Kovner]]> 2019-12-02 18:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/418635235 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419210866 2019-12-03 17:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419210866 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419212715 2019-12-03 17:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419212715 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419218750 Abba and his future wife, Vitka Kempner]]> 2019-12-03 18:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419218750 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419227618 2019-12-03 18:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/419227618 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/420371740 Vitka Kempner, Abba's fiancee]]> 2019-12-05 17:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/420371740 afraley24 https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/420375628 The FPO, or Fareinikte Partisaner Organizatzie, which translated to English is United Partisans Organization, was the rebel group that Abba partially founded, the FPO helped smuggle children out of ghetto's and into allied countries, helped with sabotage missions against the Nazi's, and secretly doing everything he could to bring down the Nazi empire. Him and some of his soldier friends once planted a bomb on some railroad track and blew up a German freight train.]]> 2019-12-05 17:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/afraley24/2x2ozvlnee1f/wish/420375628