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03949aam a2200421 i 4500 001 81AFF5B893D911ED8CF4B29E31ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230114010102 008 220506s2023 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022022185 020 $a 1503630315 : HRD 020 $a 9781503630314 : HRD 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d IMmBT $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h heb 050 00 $a D804.195 $b .P6713 2023 082 00 $a 940.53/18 $2 23/eng/20220518 100 1 $a Porat, Dina, $e author. 240 10 $a Li naḳam ṿe-shilem. $l English 245 10 $a Nakam : $b the Holocaust survivors who sought full-scale revenge / $c Dina Porat ; translated by Mark L. Levinson. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiv, 365 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture 500 $a "Originally published in Hebrew in 2019 under the title Li Nakam v'Shilem"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index. 505 0 $a Lublin, January-March 1945 : the idea of vengeance -- Bucharest, March-June 1945 : from conception to preparation -- Italy, July-August 1945 : the Jewish Brigade -- Palestine and Europe, August 1945-March 1946 : Kovner and the Yishuv -- Paris, February-June 1946 : the Haganah and the avengers -- Germany, August 1945-June 1946 : life apart from life. 520 $a "The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans, Nakam (Hebrew for "vengeance") tells the story of "the Avengers" (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter AbbaKovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity. Had they been successful, they would have poisoned city water supplies and loaves of bread distributed to German POWs, with the aim of killing six million Germans. Kovner and his followers went to great lengths to carry out their plans, going so far as to obtain the plans for Nuremberg's municipal watersystem, secure large quantities of poison, infiltrate a POW camp and the bakery that supplied it, and distribute poisoned bread to prisoners - but their plots were ultimately stymied. Most of the members of Nakam eventually returned to Israel, where fordecades many of them refused to speak publicly about their roles in the group. While the Avengers' story began to come to light in the 1980s, details of the relations between the group and Zionist leadership and the motivations of its members have remained unknown. Drawing on rich archival sources and in-depth interviews with the Avengers in their later years, historian Dina Porat examines the formation of the group and the clash between the formative humanistic values held by its members and their unrealized plans for violent retribution"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Nakam (Organization) $x History. 650 0 $a Nazi hunters $z Germany $x History. 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors $z Israel $x Interviews. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $x Influence. 650 0 $a Revenge $x Moral and ethical aspects. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Porat, Dina. $t Nakam $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023] $z 9781503633773 $w (DLC) 2022022186 830 0 $a Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127011844.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015234.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=81AFF5B893D911ED8CF4B29E31ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search