Title: The avengers /
Authors: Cohen, Rich.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Kovner, Abba,; Korchak, Reizl,; Kovner, Vitka,; Kovner, Vitka,; Korchak, Reizl,; Israel.; World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Biography; Vilnius (Lithuania) History
Abstract: "In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city's sewer tunnels to sabotage German outposts. Abba's chief lieutenants were two teenage girls, Vitka Kempner and Ruzka Korczak. At seventeen, Vitka and Ruzka were perhaps the most daring partisans in the East, the first to blow up a Nazi train in occupied Europe"--Jacket.