On December 31, 1941, Abba Kovner spoke before an assembly of Vilna Ghetto youth and declared his far-sighted and far from conventional conviction that the Nazis were determined “to destroy all the Jews of Europe,” and that they, the Jews of Lithuania, were to be “the first in line.”
- By Moyshe
- 01 Jan 2013
- 05:16AM
I can think of very few people who compare to Aba Kover in terms of heroism. The Jewish people owe him a great debt.
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