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Vitka Kempner
(1920-2012)
Avenger of the Holocaust
1 Okay. So right off the bat, the main problem here is sourcing. The main book written on the subject, The Avengers by Rich Cohen, is well-researched… but also full of poorly-sourced claims and stuff that’s rightly in dispute. As an example, he uncritically repeats a claim that the group got their first batch of poison partially from Chaim Wiezmann, Israel’s First President, when it’s been shown that it couldn’t have happened, as he wasn’t in the country at the time. When possible, I’ve tempered Cohen’s reporting with that of historian Dina Porat, whose book on Abba Kovner covers a lot of this, but with little focus on Vitka. Since most of the primary sourcing is in languages I don’t speak, in countries I’ve never visited, I’ve also relied on translated video interviews to back up claims. The latest of which is Channel 4’s documentary Holocaust: the Revenge Plot – which is also in many places a poor summary. I’ve tried my best here.3 As an aside, I think Dina Porat, the historian, might be a distant relative of mine…? We share a pretty uncommon last name.
2 The banning of jobs started as an informal thing and ended up codified into law later on. Anti-Jewish pogroms were a semi-regular occurrence, but I’m choosing to highlight a handful of times when counter-measures were attempted, and thwarted.4 The poster in the top panel is actual anti-semitic propaganda poster, but it’s an anachronism – it’s from 1941, and the period I’m depicting here is pre-1939. You can find the poster here.
5 What the Nazi actually said, I don’t know, but those were common talking points, as seen in German propaganda like the film The Eternal Jew.6 Vitka escaped along with her 13-year-old brother, seen here. She left him at her grandparents’ place. They all died in the war.
7 According to Cohen, the trains that the Germans rolled in on had racist caricatures of Jews. I couldn’t verify that, and I didn’t particularly want to draw that.8 Vilnius is Lithuania’s capital, and is called Vilna in many other languages. You’ll find better hits on Google if you search Vilna ghetto, for example.
9The ghetto here has a sign warning of plague, which is verifiable in historical photos. They had, I believe, used plague as an excuse to vacate the previous residents — all destitute Jews (after all, many avenues of work were closed to them).10 The population question here is a REALLY difficult one to answer. Cohen’s book said that there were around 15,000 Jews, out of about 200,000 people total in Vilnius, prior to the arrival of Polish refugees. This website claims the total number of Jews to have ballooned up to around 60,000-80,000. Regardless, around 5,000 were seemingly “evicted” from the ghetto, and another 20,000 forced in after them.11Ruzka had a similar horror story prior to her arrival in Vilnius. Also a Polish refugee, she’d been pulled out of school at fifteen after suffering extreme discrimination. She’d fled the Nazis by making an arduous trek across a great distance, becoming a leader to the kids who were making the trip alongside her.
12 Abba was leading the Young Guard (Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza’ir) group in the ghetto – which was a secular socialist Zionist movement of which Ruzka was already a part. Vitka had originally joined a far more conservative group called Betar, but proved too cheery for it. They met him in passing, but it was not until the girl from Ponar arrived – and he moved back into Vilnius from a church outside of town – that they really met him. Vitka was the one to bring him in from the church.13 I use the word “triad” here knowing the implications to certain people. Cohen’s book heavily hints that they had some form of polyamory going on, even if not totally physical. Again: totally unsourceable, but they were a close-knit trio almost all their lives. I’ve tried to provide direct quotes where possible.
14 The way it worked was that the ghetto leader (Gens, whom you’ll meet in two pages) would get word that the Nazis wanted 3,000 people for the labor camps, and then have to use the Jewish police to round them up. In the early days, a handful of people went willingly. Later on, they didn’t. The Nazis often used the Jewish police, under control of people like Gens, as tools to pacify the Jews and get them on to trains. It’s pretty horrible stuff.
15 This is the worst thing I’ve ever drawn. It made me sad for a week.
16 She was lying right next to her dead mother, whose face she turned away from. Not everyone died instantly — many moaned and died slowly and horribly. One other woman realized that Sara (the woman depicted here) was alive, and urged her to be quiet. When night fell, the woman was too injured to climb out of the pit. Sara stayed in the brush and then fled back to civilization, where she was found by some Jews who were scavenging for food. She was quietly brought to the Vilnius hospital, where the next scene takes place.
17 The staging here is a bit of shorthand. Initially Abba met her alone, then told the Young Guard, and then, on December 31, 1939 told folk he thought they could trust (he gave a famous speech using the phrase “We will not go like lambs to the slaughter.”). In telling the Young Guard, someone did bring up the German retaliation policy, and according to Cohen, Ruzka made that blistering retort in panel 2, which would be in character.18 The guy in the white armband in panels 2 and 4, alongside Gens, is meant to symbolize the Jewish police, who often didn’t really act in the interests of the ghetto residents.
19 This was June 8, 1942. Cohen’s book claims this to be the first act of sabotage in occupied Europe, and I couldn’t find an earlier one. It also claims that upwards of 200 men were killed, which I couldn’t verify. One of Vitka’s comrades was killed in the returned fire, and Vitka’s leg was wounded. In return, the Germans killed 60 peasants in a nearby town.20 Here, they’re throwing lightbulbs filled with gasoline as improvised grenades. I believe they got this trick from a Finnish partisan’s manual that Ruzka found in the Vilnius library.21 On December 31, 1942, the partisans, led by a woman named Rachel Markowicz, blew up another train.
22 They did have a theater — Vilnius was a center of Jewish culture and learning, prior to the war — but the partisans handed out flyers urging them not to get complacent when they put on a show.23 The guy getting arrested here is Yitzhak Wittenberg, a communist who was heading the UPO (also called the FPO) — an umbrella group of partisans of all stripes. His identity had been given up to the SS by a captured partisan (who then killed himself). Gens called in Wittenberg and Abba to a midnight meeting, where he turned around and had Wittenberg arrested.
24 This was the night of July 8, 1943, I think. She dressed him up as an old lady.
25 They sent people out in waves, and Vitka would escotrt them out. Often they’d stop by the Jewish cemetery, where she’d bury weapons. They’d dig them up and then head out of town. Some were caught and killed, and then their families were killed.26 Not mentioned in this was that the Nazis were dramatically ramping up their quotas for work camps. Gens started running out of people to give them, and near the end even gave up the Jewish police he’d been using as an enforcement group.
27 The staging of this is a bit confusing. There were two battalions, and Gens knew where one of them was meeting. They didn’t have weapons on them, and a courier was bringing them in. But the courier wasn’t quick enough, and they got ambushed by the SS. This was September 1st, 1943.
28 This top panel was the second-toughest thing for me to draw. If you’re not Jewish, you may not know the extreme importance placed on the holy books. Each Torah is written out by hand, and you’re not allowed to actually touch it — you have to use a special pointer device to keep your place. You’re supposed to fast for forty days if you drop one. It’s one of the most nerve-wracking parts of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, to carry one around the synagogue. The thought of using Talmuds and the like for bullet shielding is just… immensely, crushingly sad to me.29 Vitka wasn’t actually in Unit 1 (and it wasn’t called Unit 1) – but for streamlining purposes, I’ve depicted it in this way.
30 Ruzka was put into command when the person running Unit 1 was shot to death, She leapt out the back into the courtyard.31 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had lasted a month, starting in April of that year (the Vilnius revolt took place on September 1st). The Warsaw uprising saw around 15,000 Jews and around 150 Germans killed in bitter fighting, which ended with the Germans burning down much of the ghetto, and its inhabitants with it.
32 They couldn’t bring many people through the sewers, and had to turn away even their own parents. The last words Abba’s mother said to him were, as he was heading into the sewers, “What about me?”33 A handful of Jews stayed in Vilnius, only so they could work at the fur factory.
34 This area had been a hunting camp for the Polish royal family. Some of the partisan structures still stand today.35 I can’t verify how bad conditions were in the camp between the different factions, but it sounds horrifying – the Jews were the only group that had women, and so other groups would try to rape them at night. They’d sing anti-semitic songs, on and on.36 They had no force supplying them. The Polish partisans and Soviet partisans would get reinforcements – and the peasants were sometimes okay with them – but the Jews, not so much.
37 Abba would leave notes saying “killed for betraying a Jew” on the bodies of peasants upon he took revenge at first. In the later days of their time in the woods, he ramped it up to killing anyone who stumbled upon them. They even destroyed much of the town of Konyuchi, which did halt peasants from turning on them, but… at a great cost.38 These stories at the bottom are a mix of false and true. Many of them were repeated verbatim in the Cohen book and I can’t verify at all. The guard who stomped women to death was real, and Abba had seen a Nazi kill an infant by hitting it against the wall. Ilse Koch was famously accused of making lampshades out of human skin, but experts claimed it was goat skin. Regardless: the point I’m trying to get at here is how un-fact-checked stories can feed dark things in people, regardless of ideology. This has been a recurrent theme in the entries I’ve done here, and it’s obviously a problem with this story itself.
39 Abba’s in the middle, looking left. Ruzka is next to him, with the beret and the light-colored buttons. Vitka is on the far right.40 Ruzka was their advance guard throughout this. Many in the group got medals from the Soviet union, which afforded them some mobility on the trains, but it was still not easy.
41 This drive to get Jews out of post-Nazi Europe and to Palestine was known as the Bricha.
42 I’m honestly a little confused as to what Ruzka was saying to everyone in her tour of Palestine. Much of her talks were about the horrors of the Nazis, but her stated goal was to help the Jews in Europe. I’m a little unclear as to how she approached Ben-Gurion, to make him react in that way. Everyone believed what she said, though.43 Notably, Abba claimed that Weizmann, seen here, was instrumental in supplying the poison for the plot that unfolds in the next couple pages. The historian Porat disputes this, saying that Weizmann couldn’t have, as he wasn’t even in the country at the time.
44 The revenge plot began at Passover in 1945. The dialogue at the top is verbatim as reported in Cohen’s book, but the attitude is backed up by explanations given in interviews. The bottom summarizes his attitude – that Jews had no standing, no nation, and thus couldn’t bring charges up in international court. I mentioned the 100-killed-for-every-dead-Germans policy earlier to have a direct echo of what he says at the bottom.45 Cohen claims they wanted to poison the waters of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg, and Hamburg all at once. Other sources indicate they only wanted to attack four cities.46 It’s important to note that the overwhelming majority of survivors didn’t seek vengeance. Porat estimates that between Nakam and all other vigilante groups (i.e. non-Mossad), there were only maybe 250 Jews worldwide who tried to seek revenge.
47 Abba only rarely approached talking of killing 6 million Germans — mostly he’d present his stated goal as plan B (targeted POW killing, which shows up on the next page). Most people, even if sympathetic, were against it, although some did help him.48 I’m a bit perplexed on Ruzka’s stance here, honestly. Her daughter says she never would have gone along with the plot, but she did introduce him to people. Ruzka’s diary talks about how someone would do this, even if it wasn’t Abba, and chalks it up to fate. Porat’s book even notes how she didn’t like Ya’ari, and felt like he didn’t get it. Ya’ari’s lines are as reported in Cohen’s book.
49 Vitka was living in Paris, and the others were scattered across Europe. Many were in close proximity to Germans, which was causing them extreme mental anguish.50 Abba’s arrest is a matter of some curiosity. He did get a large quantity of poison from someone (as I’ve mentioned, who is still debated), but threw it overboard when the British came to question him (he was on a boat under a false identity). He died thinking someone, likely Ben-Gurion, tipped off the British. Porat finds it more likely that he was just too suspicious in general.
51 There were other poison-the-POWs plots that were simultaneously attempted, but this was the only successful one. The suspicion of the officially-reported story come from some of the Nakam members. One historian in the Channel 4 documentary states he thinks upwards of a hundred died, but it was suppressed to prevent panic. Nobody knows for sure. It would be kind of amazing if nobody did die, though – arsenic is horrifying.
52 I am here talking of groups like Irgun and Lehi.
53 Ruzka is on far left, holding the child. Abba’s far right, Vitka’s next to him. Ruzka’s husband was named Avi.
And with that, I am going off grid for a while to get away from the inevitable slew of messages accusing me variously of Zionism and anti-Semitism. Spending a month in the headspace of atrocities for a month has been hard enough.
Footnotes
| ↑1 | Okay. So right off the bat, the main problem here is sourcing. The main book written on the subject, The Avengers by Rich Cohen, is well-researched… but also full of poorly-sourced claims and stuff that’s rightly in dispute. As an example, he uncritically repeats a claim that the group got their first batch of poison partially from Chaim Wiezmann, Israel’s First President, when it’s been shown that it couldn’t have happened, as he wasn’t in the country at the time. When possible, I’ve tempered Cohen’s reporting with that of historian Dina Porat, whose book on Abba Kovner covers a lot of this, but with little focus on Vitka. Since most of the primary sourcing is in languages I don’t speak, in countries I’ve never visited, I’ve also relied on translated video interviews to back up claims. The latest of which is Channel 4’s documentary Holocaust: the Revenge Plot – which is also in many places a poor summary. I’ve tried my best here. |
| ↑2 | The banning of jobs started as an informal thing and ended up codified into law later on. Anti-Jewish pogroms were a semi-regular occurrence, but I’m choosing to highlight a handful of times when counter-measures were attempted, and thwarted. |
| ↑3 | As an aside, I think Dina Porat, the historian, might be a distant relative of mine…? We share a pretty uncommon last name. |
| ↑4 | The poster in the top panel is actual anti-semitic propaganda poster, but it’s an anachronism – it’s from 1941, and the period I’m depicting here is pre-1939. You can find the poster here. |
| ↑5 | What the Nazi actually said, I don’t know, but those were common talking points, as seen in German propaganda like the film The Eternal Jew. |
| ↑6 | Vitka escaped along with her 13-year-old brother, seen here. She left him at her grandparents’ place. They all died in the war. |
| ↑7 | According to Cohen, the trains that the Germans rolled in on had racist caricatures of Jews. I couldn’t verify that, and I didn’t particularly want to draw that. |
| ↑8 | Vilnius is Lithuania’s capital, and is called Vilna in many other languages. You’ll find better hits on Google if you search Vilna ghetto, for example. |
| ↑9 | The ghetto here has a sign warning of plague, which is verifiable in historical photos. They had, I believe, used plague as an excuse to vacate the previous residents — all destitute Jews (after all, many avenues of work were closed to them). |
| ↑10 | The population question here is a REALLY difficult one to answer. Cohen’s book said that there were around 15,000 Jews, out of about 200,000 people total in Vilnius, prior to the arrival of Polish refugees. This website claims the total number of Jews to have ballooned up to around 60,000-80,000. Regardless, around 5,000 were seemingly “evicted” from the ghetto, and another 20,000 forced in after them. |
| ↑11 | Ruzka had a similar horror story prior to her arrival in Vilnius. Also a Polish refugee, she’d been pulled out of school at fifteen after suffering extreme discrimination. She’d fled the Nazis by making an arduous trek across a great distance, becoming a leader to the kids who were making the trip alongside her. |
| ↑12 | Abba was leading the Young Guard (Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza’ir) group in the ghetto – which was a secular socialist Zionist movement of which Ruzka was already a part. Vitka had originally joined a far more conservative group called Betar, but proved too cheery for it. They met him in passing, but it was not until the girl from Ponar arrived – and he moved back into Vilnius from a church outside of town – that they really met him. Vitka was the one to bring him in from the church. |
| ↑13 | I use the word “triad” here knowing the implications to certain people. Cohen’s book heavily hints that they had some form of polyamory going on, even if not totally physical. Again: totally unsourceable, but they were a close-knit trio almost all their lives. I’ve tried to provide direct quotes where possible. |
| ↑14 | The way it worked was that the ghetto leader (Gens, whom you’ll meet in two pages) would get word that the Nazis wanted 3,000 people for the labor camps, and then have to use the Jewish police to round them up. In the early days, a handful of people went willingly. Later on, they didn’t. The Nazis often used the Jewish police, under control of people like Gens, as tools to pacify the Jews and get them on to trains. It’s pretty horrible stuff. |
| ↑15 | This is the worst thing I’ve ever drawn. It made me sad for a week. |
| ↑16 | She was lying right next to her dead mother, whose face she turned away from. Not everyone died instantly — many moaned and died slowly and horribly. One other woman realized that Sara (the woman depicted here) was alive, and urged her to be quiet. When night fell, the woman was too injured to climb out of the pit. Sara stayed in the brush and then fled back to civilization, where she was found by some Jews who were scavenging for food. She was quietly brought to the Vilnius hospital, where the next scene takes place. |
| ↑17 | The staging here is a bit of shorthand. Initially Abba met her alone, then told the Young Guard, and then, on December 31, 1939 told folk he thought they could trust (he gave a famous speech using the phrase “We will not go like lambs to the slaughter.”). In telling the Young Guard, someone did bring up the German retaliation policy, and according to Cohen, Ruzka made that blistering retort in panel 2, which would be in character. |
| ↑18 | The guy in the white armband in panels 2 and 4, alongside Gens, is meant to symbolize the Jewish police, who often didn’t really act in the interests of the ghetto residents. |
| ↑19 | This was June 8, 1942. Cohen’s book claims this to be the first act of sabotage in occupied Europe, and I couldn’t find an earlier one. It also claims that upwards of 200 men were killed, which I couldn’t verify. One of Vitka’s comrades was killed in the returned fire, and Vitka’s leg was wounded. In return, the Germans killed 60 peasants in a nearby town. |
| ↑20 | Here, they’re throwing lightbulbs filled with gasoline as improvised grenades. I believe they got this trick from a Finnish partisan’s manual that Ruzka found in the Vilnius library. |
| ↑21 | On December 31, 1942, the partisans, led by a woman named Rachel Markowicz, blew up another train. |
| ↑22 | They did have a theater — Vilnius was a center of Jewish culture and learning, prior to the war — but the partisans handed out flyers urging them not to get complacent when they put on a show. |
| ↑23 | The guy getting arrested here is Yitzhak Wittenberg, a communist who was heading the UPO (also called the FPO) — an umbrella group of partisans of all stripes. His identity had been given up to the SS by a captured partisan (who then killed himself). Gens called in Wittenberg and Abba to a midnight meeting, where he turned around and had Wittenberg arrested. |
| ↑24 | This was the night of July 8, 1943, I think. She dressed him up as an old lady. |
| ↑25 | They sent people out in waves, and Vitka would escotrt them out. Often they’d stop by the Jewish cemetery, where she’d bury weapons. They’d dig them up and then head out of town. Some were caught and killed, and then their families were killed. |
| ↑26 | Not mentioned in this was that the Nazis were dramatically ramping up their quotas for work camps. Gens started running out of people to give them, and near the end even gave up the Jewish police he’d been using as an enforcement group. |
| ↑27 | The staging of this is a bit confusing. There were two battalions, and Gens knew where one of them was meeting. They didn’t have weapons on them, and a courier was bringing them in. But the courier wasn’t quick enough, and they got ambushed by the SS. This was September 1st, 1943. |
| ↑28 | This top panel was the second-toughest thing for me to draw. If you’re not Jewish, you may not know the extreme importance placed on the holy books. Each Torah is written out by hand, and you’re not allowed to actually touch it — you have to use a special pointer device to keep your place. You’re supposed to fast for forty days if you drop one. It’s one of the most nerve-wracking parts of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, to carry one around the synagogue. The thought of using Talmuds and the like for bullet shielding is just… immensely, crushingly sad to me. |
| ↑29 | Vitka wasn’t actually in Unit 1 (and it wasn’t called Unit 1) – but for streamlining purposes, I’ve depicted it in this way. |
| ↑30 | Ruzka was put into command when the person running Unit 1 was shot to death, She leapt out the back into the courtyard. |
| ↑31 | The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had lasted a month, starting in April of that year (the Vilnius revolt took place on September 1st). The Warsaw uprising saw around 15,000 Jews and around 150 Germans killed in bitter fighting, which ended with the Germans burning down much of the ghetto, and its inhabitants with it. |
| ↑32 | They couldn’t bring many people through the sewers, and had to turn away even their own parents. The last words Abba’s mother said to him were, as he was heading into the sewers, “What about me?” |
| ↑33 | A handful of Jews stayed in Vilnius, only so they could work at the fur factory. |
| ↑34 | This area had been a hunting camp for the Polish royal family. Some of the partisan structures still stand today. |
| ↑35 | I can’t verify how bad conditions were in the camp between the different factions, but it sounds horrifying – the Jews were the only group that had women, and so other groups would try to rape them at night. They’d sing anti-semitic songs, on and on. |
| ↑36 | They had no force supplying them. The Polish partisans and Soviet partisans would get reinforcements – and the peasants were sometimes okay with them – but the Jews, not so much. |
| ↑37 | Abba would leave notes saying “killed for betraying a Jew” on the bodies of peasants upon he took revenge at first. In the later days of their time in the woods, he ramped it up to killing anyone who stumbled upon them. They even destroyed much of the town of Konyuchi, which did halt peasants from turning on them, but… at a great cost. |
| ↑38 | These stories at the bottom are a mix of false and true. Many of them were repeated verbatim in the Cohen book and I can’t verify at all. The guard who stomped women to death was real, and Abba had seen a Nazi kill an infant by hitting it against the wall. Ilse Koch was famously accused of making lampshades out of human skin, but experts claimed it was goat skin. Regardless: the point I’m trying to get at here is how un-fact-checked stories can feed dark things in people, regardless of ideology. This has been a recurrent theme in the entries I’ve done here, and it’s obviously a problem with this story itself. |
| ↑39 | Abba’s in the middle, looking left. Ruzka is next to him, with the beret and the light-colored buttons. Vitka is on the far right. |
| ↑40 | Ruzka was their advance guard throughout this. Many in the group got medals from the Soviet union, which afforded them some mobility on the trains, but it was still not easy. |
| ↑41 | This drive to get Jews out of post-Nazi Europe and to Palestine was known as the Bricha. |
| ↑42 | I’m honestly a little confused as to what Ruzka was saying to everyone in her tour of Palestine. Much of her talks were about the horrors of the Nazis, but her stated goal was to help the Jews in Europe. I’m a little unclear as to how she approached Ben-Gurion, to make him react in that way. Everyone believed what she said, though. |
| ↑43 | Notably, Abba claimed that Weizmann, seen here, was instrumental in supplying the poison for the plot that unfolds in the next couple pages. The historian Porat disputes this, saying that Weizmann couldn’t have, as he wasn’t even in the country at the time. |
| ↑44 | The revenge plot began at Passover in 1945. The dialogue at the top is verbatim as reported in Cohen’s book, but the attitude is backed up by explanations given in interviews. The bottom summarizes his attitude – that Jews had no standing, no nation, and thus couldn’t bring charges up in international court. I mentioned the 100-killed-for-every-dead-Germans policy earlier to have a direct echo of what he says at the bottom. |
| ↑45 | Cohen claims they wanted to poison the waters of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg, and Hamburg all at once. Other sources indicate they only wanted to attack four cities. |
| ↑46 | It’s important to note that the overwhelming majority of survivors didn’t seek vengeance. Porat estimates that between Nakam and all other vigilante groups (i.e. non-Mossad), there were only maybe 250 Jews worldwide who tried to seek revenge. |
| ↑47 | Abba only rarely approached talking of killing 6 million Germans — mostly he’d present his stated goal as plan B (targeted POW killing, which shows up on the next page). Most people, even if sympathetic, were against it, although some did help him. |
| ↑48 | I’m a bit perplexed on Ruzka’s stance here, honestly. Her daughter says she never would have gone along with the plot, but she did introduce him to people. Ruzka’s diary talks about how someone would do this, even if it wasn’t Abba, and chalks it up to fate. Porat’s book even notes how she didn’t like Ya’ari, and felt like he didn’t get it. Ya’ari’s lines are as reported in Cohen’s book. |
| ↑49 | Vitka was living in Paris, and the others were scattered across Europe. Many were in close proximity to Germans, which was causing them extreme mental anguish. |
| ↑50 | Abba’s arrest is a matter of some curiosity. He did get a large quantity of poison from someone (as I’ve mentioned, who is still debated), but threw it overboard when the British came to question him (he was on a boat under a false identity). He died thinking someone, likely Ben-Gurion, tipped off the British. Porat finds it more likely that he was just too suspicious in general. |
| ↑51 | There were other poison-the-POWs plots that were simultaneously attempted, but this was the only successful one. The suspicion of the officially-reported story come from some of the Nakam members. One historian in the Channel 4 documentary states he thinks upwards of a hundred died, but it was suppressed to prevent panic. Nobody knows for sure. It would be kind of amazing if nobody did die, though – arsenic is horrifying. |
| ↑52 | I am here talking of groups like Irgun and Lehi. |
| ↑53 | Ruzka is on far left, holding the child. Abba’s far right, Vitka’s next to him. Ruzka’s husband was named Avi. |
Art Notes
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