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Collective testimony of Abba Kovner, born in Sevastopol, Russia, 1918, Vitka (Kempner) Kovner, born in Kalisz, Poland, and Ruzka Korczak, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding their experiences in the FPO underground in Vilna

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Collective testimony of Abba Kovner, born in Sevastopol, Russia, 1918, Vitka (Kempner) Kovner, born in Kalisz, Poland, and Ruzka Korczak, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding their experiences in the FPO underground in Vilna Activities of the FPO underground in Vilna; consolidation of the idea for armed struggle and the ways to carry it out under ghetto conditions; Wittenberg affair; the approach of Jacob Gens, the Judenrat head to saving the ghetto Jews; contacts with the Bialystok Ghetto and members of the local Communist underground; relations within the FPO; escape to the forest during the liquidation of the ghetto, September 1943.
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item Id
3557414
First Name
Aba
Abba
Vitka
Vitla
Rozka
Ruzka
Last Name
Kovner
Kovner
Korchak
Korczak
Maiden Name
Kempner
Date of Birth
1918
1922
Place of Birth
Sevastopol, Russia (USSR)
Kalisz, Poland
Bielsko, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
3882
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
01/01/1974
Date of Creation - latest
01/01/1974
Name of Submitter
Abba Kovner
Kovner (Kempner), Vitka
Ruzka Korczak
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
58
Archival Signature
ק-3440/294
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Audio
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection