Vitka Kempner

Vitka Kempner (14 March 1920–2012)[1] was a Lithuanian Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim) — the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust.

Kempner and Kovner later married in 1946.[2][3]

Kempner is remembered in the song Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt by Hirsh Glick, which celebrates her heroic attack on a German convoy in the Vilnius sector in 1942.

References

  1. ↑ "Barzel, Neima. "Vitka Kempner-Kovner." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.". Retrieved 2016-10-10.
  2. ↑ Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present - Bernard A. Cook - Google Books
  3. ↑ The Avengers: Rich Cohen: 9780375705298: Amazon.com: Books
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