“We should have tried again and again,” one Avenger said, years later.
is a compelling, novelistic account of the group’s leaders and their relationships, focused on their armed resistance during the war. Porat’s, as the first book to comprehensively describe the Avengers’ postwar operations, and to analyze the voluminous, often contradictory materials portraying the group’s associations with the Zionist leaders who would soon run the state of Israel, will likely stand as the definitive book on this complex and disturbing chapter of modern Jewish history.
Deranged and terrifying though this idea was, the Avengers shared a total commitment to their goal of revenge. They were motivated not only by their suicidal rage, grief, and despair but also by the fear that, despite Germany’s defeat, the Holocaust was not over, and the idea that they had to act boldly in order to prevent the last vestiges of European Judaism from being wiped out forever. It is easy to assume that the Allied victory meant the end of antisemitic violence in Europe.
When Kovner’s comrades in Europe learned of his arrest, and of the loss of the poison, they switched their energies to Plan B. Using arsenic they had acquired from contacts in the former French Resistance, Avengers poisoned thousands of loaves of bread bound for the Langwasser POW camp, which was under the administration of the United States. Some 2,000 SS veterans became ill, and hundreds were hospitalized, but none died.
suddenly and without warning, Idek disregards the present time. He sits tensely forward, his eyes fixed on a point above the shelves, and from his throat comes a howl: “Why?! Why?! Why was the operation stopped?! Father and Mother will never forgive me for not doing anything! Mama, Papa, I did nothing! They stripped them and shot them. I went home, and the place was empty. We were seven children. My uncle had ten. We should have tried again and again!” His howling seems endless.
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