Overview
- Description
- Personal archives of Abba Kovner (1918-1987) consists of correspondence, drafts, letters, essays, newspapers clippings on Jewish resistance, partisans, and the Vilnius ghetto; articles about the Holocaust, Israeli society, religion, and ethics; poems and their English translations. Also includes a catalog for Abba Kovner's personal archive with detailed finding aid.
- Subtitle
- אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי
- Date
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inclusive:
1940-1993
- Collection Creator
- Abba Kovner
- Biography
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Abba Kovner (1918-1988) was a Zionist youth leader from Hashomer HaTzair, who played a key role in the founding of the United Partisan Organization in wartime Vilnius. During the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto, he directed the escape of partisan fighters out of the ghetto, and commanded a Jewish partisan unit in the Rudninkai Forest. He is well-known for the manifesto he wrote in December 1941, in which he appealed to other Jews "Let us not go like sheep to the slaughter."
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Poems. Interviews. Articles. Songs. Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Extent
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35,414 digital images : JPEG ; 90.9 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Any commercial use of the records require to obtain a written consent from the owner of original materials, and may require the payment of a license fee for such use.
- Copyright Holder
- Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania--Vilnius. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Vilnius--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry. Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
- Personal Name
- Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Yad Yaari, Israel, Record Group 95-61. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Hashomer Hatzair Archives Yad Yaari, Israel, via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2014.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-05 10:43:41
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