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"Ten Commandments" from the Chronicles of the Irgun Brit Zion.
From the Ten Commandments of the Irgun Brit Zion: 1. Believes in and will fight to the end to achieve a Hebrew state for the people of Israel. 2. Devotes himself in the ghetto to preparing youth in the war for a homeland. 3. Speaks Hebrew and spreads its usage to the Jewish masses.... The resistance movement in the Kovno ghetto was riddled with obstacles. Inmates engaged in sabotage at labor sites and defied German orders to the extent possible. However, armed resistance was complicated by several factors: hostility of the Lithuanian population, fear of reprisals, especially against one's family, Kovno's distance of 120 kilometers from the nearest partisan bases in the forests, and the unavailability of weapons. During late 1943 and early 1944, however, the underground took a more purposeful approach, empowered by the merging of the two underground wings in the ghetto, the Zionists and the Communists. They formed a united Jewish Fighting Organization under the leadership of Chaim Yelin. The Jewish council supplied the group money and protection. Ghetto police helped train fighters to use weapons and smuggle them out of the ghetto to Soviet partisan bases in the forests. More than 300 young men and women escaped to the Rudniki forest to join Soviet-backed partisan groups engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Germans.
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Secret codes for units of the Anti-Fascist Organization.
Sites of underground and resistance activities in Kovno and Lithuania.
The Anti-Fascist Organization plan to attack the German Ghetto Guard included this diagram of the guardhouse cellar.
The Anti-Fascist Organization's tactics guide to "encounter actions."
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