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Abba Kovner personal archives (RG-95-61)

Document | Accession Number: 2014.106 | RG Number: RG-68.156

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
inclusive:  1940-1993
Language
Hebrew
English
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Poems.
Interviews.
Articles.
Songs.
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Extent
35,414 digital images : JPEG ; 90.9 GB .

About This Document

Document Creator
Abba Kovner
Biography
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."
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
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.

Rights and 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
 
Record last modified: 2023-06-05 10:43:41
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