Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto

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The Jewish Fighting Organization in the Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish resistance group that organized armed struggle and uprisings against Nazi forces and their collaborators in occupied Lithuania.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish resistance organization
World War II resistance movement
underground organization
activeDuring World War II
aimedTo organize armed resistance against Nazi extermination policies
save Jews by escape to partisan units
cooperatedWith Antifascist underground in Vilnius
Soviet partisans
countryInPeriod Nazi Germany
Second Polish Republic
disbandedAfter liquidation of Vilna Ghetto
documentedIn memoirs of Abba Kovner
writings of Chaim Lazar
engagedIn armed resistance
partisan warfare in surrounding forests
preparation of uprising in Vilna Ghetto
sabotage operations
smuggling of weapons
formedFrom Betar
Hashomer Hatzair
HeHalutz
Poalei Zion
linked to: Poale Zion

communist youth groups
foundedBy Abba Kovner
Yitzhak Wittenberg
representatives of Zionist youth movements
representatives of communist underground
foundedIn 1942
Vilna Ghetto
hasAbbreviation FPO
hasAlternativeName Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye
United Partisan Organization
hasCommander Yitzhak Wittenberg
hasLeader Abba Kovner
Yitzhak Wittenberg
hasNotableMember Abba Kovner
Alexander Bogen
Chaim Lazar
Joseph Glazman
Rachel Margolis
Rozka Korczak
Vitka Kempner
Yitzhak Wittenberg
hasPoliticalCommissioner Abba Kovner
historicalPeriod Holocaust in Lithuania
ideology Jewish nationalism
Zionism
communism
socialism
legacy symbol of Jewish armed resistance in the Holocaust
motto "Let us not go like sheep to the slaughter"
notableEvent Wittenberg affair
attempted uprising during liquidation of Vilna Ghetto
operatedIn Vilna Ghetto
Vilnius
occupied Lithuania
opposedBy Judenrat of Vilna Ghetto
primaryOpponent German Sicherheitsdienst
linked to: Sicherheitsdienst

Lithuanian collaborators
Nazi Germany

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Jewish underground organizations notableExample Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto
Aviva Kempner notableWork Partisans of Vilna
linked to: Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto
Aviva Kempner coProduced Partisans of Vilna
linked to: Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto
Avrom Sutzkever participantIn Vilna Ghetto resistance
linked to: Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto
Jewish resistance in Poland hasPart Vilna Ghetto resistance
linked to: Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto