LC control no. | no2015003467 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Nakam (Organization) |
Variant(s) | Avengers (Organization) Jewish Avengers (Organization) Nokmim (Organization) Revenge (Organization) |
Beginning date | 1944 |
Field of activity | Revenge Nazi hunters Death squads |
Found in | US Holocaust Memorial Museum catalog, 7 January 2015 (Nakam (Organization)) The seventh million : the Israelis and the Holocaust, 1993: page 141 (Nakam (Revenge) organization) page 142 (initially more than 40 Jews planning to kill Germans to avenge Holocaust victims) Wikipedia, 7 January 2015 (Nakam (Organization); Jewish Avengers) The Guardian online, 7 January 2015 (Nokmim, Hebrew for avengers; it seems as if dozens of Nazis were killed by Jewish vigilantes) <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war> Nakam : jüdische Rache an NS-Tätern, c2000 Holocaust Fighters, 2021: CIP galley (After the war ended many guerrilla fighters decided that they must avenge all those who had been gassed, incinerated, starved, and beaten to death; They formed a military unit known as the Avengers, and they managed to hunt down and kill 1,500 Nazi war criminals; The Avengers were succeeded by specially trained Mossad agents who hunted and killed another 1,500 Nazi war criminals for years after World War II end; a group of about 50 militants known as the Avengers (in Hebrew they were known as the Nakam); They wanted to kill all the Nazis who were responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews; led by a charismatic poet and guerrilla fighter named Abba Kovner; began in 1944; The Jewish Brigade, which had been formed in 1944 by recruiting Jews from Mandatory Palestine and was commanded by British Jewish officers, helped to fund the Nakam; As the Brigade disbanded in the summer of 1946, many of its members joined the Nakam) |