Summary Of Nakam: The United Partisan Resistance Movement

During World War II, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis declared that Jewish people were a virus that needed to be eliminated. This insane belief led to the Holocaust, where over six million Jews were stripped away from their homes, forced into internment and concentration camps, and slaughtered. The horror that came from the deaths of millions of innocent Jews left people outraged that such a tragedy could happen, and the monsters that caused it didn’t pay enough. Most people were too scared to fight back, but not everyone; some were eager to rise up to the occasion. Resistance groups were determined to stop at nothing until they punished the former Nazis that inflicted so much pain. Nakam, a Jewish partisan resistance movement from Palestine, was one of these groups. They had one ultimate goal: to avenge the lives lost during the Holocaust. It was Nakam’s incentive for their actions that drove their extreme efforts of …show more content…
Vitka was one of the Organization’s most valued scouts and spies; she was so passionate about her duty that she actually bleached her hair blonde in order to look less Jewish. Before the liquidation at Vilna, Kempner helped lead the last group of escapees out, before they could be killed in the massacre. Korczak was just as excited about helping as Kempner. She assisted Kovner in proposing that survivors of the attack at the Vilna Ghetto should be offered armed resistance. Kovner later presented this idea at an activist meeting on December 31, 1941. Eventually, the United Partisan Organization ended, but only after successfully sabotaging German plans and smuggling Jews to safety in Palestine, Kovner, Kempner, and Korczak didn’t want to quit. Nevertheless, they formed a group of about 50 partisans, eight of them being women, with only one goal in mind–seek revenge from the Nazis that deserved to pay for their crimes, and avenge the lives