ABBA KOVNER

Hitler aims to destroy all the Jews of Europe. The Jews of Lithuania are fated to be the first in line. Let us not be led as sheep to the slaughter. True, we are weak and helpless, but the only response to the murderers is self defense. Brethren, it is better to die fighting like free men than live at the mercy of the murders. Take Courage!

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

Hitler aims to destroy all the Jews of Europe. The Jews of Lithuania are fated to be the first in line. Let us not be led as sheep to the slaughter. True, we are weak and helpless, but the only response to the murderers is self defense. Brethren, it is better to die fighting like free men than live at the mercy of the murders. Take Courage!

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.