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Abba Kovner Interview Excerpt

Israel, 1979. Interview transcript

Below is an excerpt of an interview transcript from poet and partisan Abba Kovner, who led the group of Jews in the resistance who fought alongside the Russians in the forests outside Vilnius. The interview is a translation transcript of a video interview by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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