An edition of The Avengers (2000)
The Avengers
A Jewish War Story
By Rich Cohen
Publish Date
September 19, 2000
Publisher
Knopf
Language
eng
Pages
317
Description:
"In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. After the liquidation of the ghetto, the Avengers escaped through the city's sewage tunnels to the forest, where they lived for more than a year in a dugout beside a swamp, fighting alongside other partisan groups, and ultimately bombing the city they loved, destroying Vilna's waterworks and its power plant in order to pave the way for its liberation.". "Leaving a devastated Poland behind them, they set off for the cities of Europe: Vitka and Abba to the West, and Ruzka to Palestine, where she would be literally the first person to bring a firsthand account of the Holocaust to Jewish leaders. It was in these last terrifying days - with travel in Europe still unsafe for Jews and the extent of the Holocaust still not widely known - that the Avengers hatched their plan for revenge. Before it was over, the group had smuggled enough poison into Nuremberg to kill ten thousand Nazis. The Avengers is the story of what happened to these rebels in the ghetto and in the forest, and how, fighting for the State of Israel, they moved beyond the violence of the Holocaust and made new lives."--BOOK JACKET.