Abba Kovner, the Jewish hero who planned to murder 6 million Germans in revenge

ed note–please note the word which our un-esteemed Hebraic authoress uses in describing Kovner, who planned on poisoning to death 6 million Germans–

‘hero’.

One can understand someone considering Kovner a ‘hero’ for helping organize the uprising in the Vilna ghetto, but a ‘hero’ for planning to mass murder 6 million people, many of whom would have been women and children?

This is the Judaic mindset, and no, it is not a ‘Khazar’ thing or a ‘Talmud’ thing, but rather a Hebrew/Israelite/Torah thing, as all the patriarchs found in the Old Testament, from Abraham to Moses to Joshua to David to Solomon to Saul were warlords whose claim to fame was ‘exterminating’–as commanded by the Judaic god yahweh–‘everything that breathes’.

This is the mentality that threatens to consume the world in apocalyptic hell-fire, and it did not begin with Herzl’s book ‘The Jewish state’, and until the rational side of mankind comes to rational grips with these facts, that Judah-ism is/was/always will be a violent, dangerous virus that threatens the extinction of all life on earth, all existence will continue on forward with its march to oblivion.

Times of Israel

When the Nazis infiltrated Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe during Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941, they established the Vilna Ghetto and rounded up the Jews of the city. Between June and December of 1941, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered 40,000 of Vilna’s Jews, herding them to the forest of Ponar. It was there, in the forest, that the Nazis forced the Jews to dig their own graves. Once the digging was complete, the Nazis shot the Jews and buried them in the freshly turned earth. Their bodies have remained there to this day.

On New Year’s Eve of 1942, Abba Kovner published a manifesto in the Vilna Ghetto whose message has become infamous:

‘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 murderers. Arise! Arise with your last breath!’

Practically overnight, the Vilna Ghetto partisans formed a militia under the name Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (The FPO – Eng: United Partisan Organization) of which Abba Kovner was one of the leaders. Among the warriors was the poet Avraham Sutzkever and student activist Vitka Kempner.

‘We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter,’ the battle cry of the Vilna Ghetto partisans, spread far and wide. The group, nicknamed Ha Nokmim (‘The Avengers’), was considered a valiant group in the Jewish resistance against the Nazis.

When the Vilna Ghetto was liquidated in 1943, the Avengers fled to the woods and continued their fight against the Nazis and their collaborators until the bitter end of the Second World War.

When the war was won and after the liberation of Europe and the Nazi camps, the magnitude of what the Nazis had done came to light. Kovner and his Vilna partisan compatriots traveled to the Ponar forest and, after seeing the murder perpetuated there, Kovner was stunned by the extent of the destruction. He continued traveling through the countryside that had been liberated from the Nazis and saw the cold industrialization of murder that was perpetrated at Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka.

Kovner’s desire for revenge became all-consuming and he began penning a plan for action. It was then that Kovner founded a secret organization of likeminded people called Nakam (‘revenge’).

‘… We have taken it upon ourselves not to let the world forget by performing the necessary act: Retribution. It will be more than revenge; it must be the law of the murdered Jewish people! Its name will therefore be DIN [the acronym of Dam Israel Noter, means the blood of Israel is vengeful – and ‘din’ itself means ‘judgment’] so that posterity may know that in this merciless, uncompassionate world there are both judge and judgment.’

The ultimate plan for revenge? To kill six million Germans.

Kovner’s grand plan to poison a German reservoir never did come to pass, but in the spring of 1946, the Nakam group poisoned bread meant to feed S.S. Unit prisoners in Stalag 13 in Nuremberg, which was under American authority at the time. The Nakam group infiltrated the kitchens of the POW camp and brushed 3,000 loafs of bread with arsenic.

The outcome of these events and what actually occurred as a result of the actions of Nakam is widely disputed.

In the decades following the Holocaust and the founding of Nakam, Kovner settled in Israel, married Vitka Kempner, published poetry in Yiddish and Hebrew, was a founding member of the Museum of the Jewish People, and was awarded several prizes for his work and legacy, among them the Israel Prize.

The desire for vengeance burned within Kovner’s heart for decades, and though he and the Nakam group never fulfilled their ultimate plan for revenge on six million Germans, he and the rest of the surviving partisans of the Vilna Ghetto played a crucial part in telling the story of rebellion and heroism during the Holocaust.