Who were the Jewish 'avengers'?
The Jewish 'Avengers' (or Nokmim, in Hebrew) were a paramilitary group of about 50 Holocaust survivors who sought violent revenge for the murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Many of the group, including its leader, the poet Abba Kovner, had been armed partisan resisters in eastern Europe.
The Avengers were mainly young people who felt, rightly, that the antisemitic violence of the Holocaust was not over because the hostilities of the Second World War had ended. They also believed, perhaps understandably, that no laws at
