Abba Kovner personal archives (RG-95-61) אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי

Identifier
irn84767
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.106
  • RG-68.156
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84767

Extent and Medium

35,414 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

  • Abba Kovner

Biographical History

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."

Archival History

Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

Acquisition

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.

Scope and Content

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.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

People

  • Abba Kovner
  • Kovner, Abba, 1918-1987.

Corporate Bodies

  • Ḳibuts ha-artsi ha-shomer ha-tsaʻir (Israel)
  • World Hashomer Hatzair

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania--Vilnius.
  • Lithuania--Ethnic relations--20th century.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Vilnius--Personal narratives.
  • Vilnius (Lithuania)--Ethnic relations.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Yad Ya'Ar/יד יערי

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

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