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Mar 14, 1918 Sevastopol, Russia Died on 25 Sep 1987 (aged 69)
Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader
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About Abba Kovner
- Abba Kovner (Hebrew: ??? ?????; March 14, 1918 – September 25, 1987) was a Jewish Hebrew and Yiddish poet, writer and partisan leader.
- In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto (he) was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews.
- His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed, but he fled into the forest, became a Soviet partisan, and survived the war.
- After the war, Kovner led a secretive organization to take revenge for the Holocaust, and made aliyah in 1947.
- Considered one of the greatest poets of modern Israel, he received the Israel Prize in 1970.
