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Nakam (Organization)

LC control no.no2015003467
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Corporate name headingNakam (Organization)
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Variant(s)Avengers (Organization)
Jewish Avengers (Organization)
Nokmim (Organization)
Revenge (Organization)
Beginning date1944
Field of activityRevenge Nazi hunters Death squads
Found inUS 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)