Vitka Kempner

Vitka Kempner (1920–2012) was a Lithuanian Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust. Kempner and Kovner later married in 1946.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present - Bernard A. Cook - Google Books
  2. ↑ The Avengers: Rich Cohen: 9780375705298: Amazon.com: Books
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