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At the end of 1941, one of the resistere passionately urged the Jews of Vilna (in particular the youth), "Let us not be led as sheep to the slaughter!" Thus did a plea become a symbol, entering the Holocaust vocabulary.
Abba Kovner saw the future and pleaded with the Jews of Vilna, the "Jer- usal- em Lithua- nia", to rise up and resist, "until your last breath."THERE WERE THOSE who survived the Holocaust in the forests, carrying out courageous acts of resistance that defied Kovner's "sheep to the slaughter" image. Then there were those who survived, for example, in the sewers.See the full content of this document
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THE ISSUE OF THE RESISTANCE of European Jews to the Nazis, though long ignored, is far from being unexplored. Already 41 years ago, a major conference on it - touching on active and passive, and physical and non-physical, manifestations of resistance - took place in Jerusal...
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