Summary of Rich Cohen's The Avengers

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#1 Ruzka Korczak grew up in Poland during the Holocaust. She was a very smart and lively girl, but extremely shy. She spent most of her time alone. When she was fifteen, her father took her out of school to help the family, and she began working at a bakery. She vowed to make her way to Palestine.

#2 Ruzka was 18 when she left to go to Warsaw to join a Zionist youth group. She was not religious, but she believed in the story of the Jews and how each person turned it into their own personal story.

#3 The road to Warsaw was crowded with refugees. Ruzka made it to Vilna, which was still occupied by the Germans, and crossed into Russian territory. She then had to cross the Bug River.

#4 Ruzka was arrested as an illegal immigrant, but she was saved by the Zionists. She was sent to a building on the outskirts of the city that had been taken over by Zionist youth groups. She became friends with a girl named Vitka Kempner, who was about 20 years old.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822543157

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Insights on Rich Cohen's The Avengers

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Ruzka Korczak grew up in Poland during the Holocaust. She was a very smart and lively girl, but extremely shy. She spent most of her time alone. When she was fifteen, her father took her out of school to help the family, and she began working at a bakery. She vowed to make her way to Palestine.

#2

Ruzka was 18 when she left to go to Warsaw to join a Zionist youth group. She was not religious, but she believed in the story of the Jews and how each person turned it into their own personal story.

#3

The road to Warsaw was crowded with refugees. Ruzka made it to Vilna, which was still occupied by the Germans, and crossed into Russian territory. She then had to cross the Bug River.

#4

Ruzka was arrested as an illegal immigrant, but she was saved by the Zionists. She was sent to a building on the outskirts of the city that had been taken over by Zionist youth groups. She became friends with a girl named Vitka Kempner, who was about 20 years old.

#5

Ruzka and Vitka became inseparable. They would walk to town together, talking about the country and its people. Vitka knew the popular songs that year, and she and Ruzka would sing them to each other.

#6

Vitka was a Jewish girl who could pass as a non-Jew. She spoke Polish without the inflections of Yiddish. She hated Germans, Russians, and Jews alike. She was on her way to a simple life before the Germans invaded Poland.

#7

When the Germans invaded, Vitka’s parents took her brother and hid him in the woods, believing they would be safe once the bombing was over. They were wrong, and Vitka was taken to a church where she met