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