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Vitka Kempner (March 14, 1920 - February 14, 2012) was a Jewish partisan who operated in Lithuania, and the wife of Father Kovner.

biography

Born in 1920 in the city of Kalish in western Poland, to the animals and to the Campner turtles. Besides, Witka had two more sons. She grew up in a mystic house and was the first girl to be accepted to companies in the Beitar in Kalesh nest. Upon graduation, she went to study at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Warsaw, joined the Student Organization of the Young Schumer and was a member of the student organization Abuka.

When the Germans entered Kalesh in September 1939, she fled eastward and joined the concentration of the "young guard" in Vilna.
In June 1941, Vilna was conquered by the Germans, who ordered the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto. Kempner was incarcerated in the ghetto and was tasked with it from the city.
This is how Dad Cobber knew, who later became her partner. Her brother served as a Jewish policeman in the ghetto.

She was the P.P.O. (United partisan organization) – the underground in the Vilna Ghetto.
In June 1942, the F.O. commander decided. To carry out first sabotage on a German train. In order for the Jews not to be accused of carrying out the loop, the selection of the location was very important.
Kempner was ordered to choose the place of the attack. This is the Kovner Conference:

When the underground went out to the forest, Kovner was appointed to the headquarters of the tour company. After one of the sabotage operations in Vilna, she decided to lead to a group of Jews. In this way, he consciously chose to breach the command of the partisan headquarters, which forbids the entry of Jews into the forest. From her testimony to the transfer of Jews to the forest:

Kovner was considered a particularly daring analyst, with witness and courage, and they were standing in her difficult hours when facing life dangers. In July 1944, he joined the Red Army that liberated Vilna.
Her whole family perished in the Holocaust.
At the end of the war, he was a member of the Avengers group and sat in Paris as a link between the organization and the Jewish Brigade.

Kovner immigrated to Israel in 1946 at the Philistine Ships in "Hungry", the last ship whose prayers were not sent to Cyprus.
She built her house in the snoring eye along with Daddy Kovner and the couple were born two children – both a hoax and a Michael.

In 1993 she lit a holocaust at the Central Conference commemorating the Holocaust Memorial Day and Heroic Day.

Kovner was a psychologist in the kibbutz and developed unique treatment methods.

In 2001, she appeared in the documentary film Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans.

In 2004, he donated Daddy Kovner's gun.

In 2011, director Yochant Yasel assembled the documentary film "Now I Tell", which deals with the story and memories of Whitca Kuner.

Another reading.
Miri Friilich, the partisan – the life story of Whitca Kuner, the release of Resling, 2014.
Yigal Wilfand (a editor), and Whitca warfare for life: Whitca Kempner-Kovner, 1920-2012, Heritage – House of Testimonials by Mordechai Ilevich, 2013.

External links

Ori O’Hara-Mer, Vittka Kovner – a warrior partisan, hand and name of Jerusalem 22 (2001), 4, on the hand site and there.
Whitca Kushner – The Story of a Warfare, on the Jewish Resistance site in the Holocaust

Wittka Kuner, Joseph Kushner, and welcome again, on the channel "Say and Name" on YouTube
Voices from the Forest: Testimonials of partisans from Vilna, on the channel "hand and there" on YouTube
Vitka Kempner, Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Sharon Gob, the personal Holocaust story of the partisan and Waka Kovner, the land added books, 28.4.2016.

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