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to Kovner and went out into the street
with the words “Ich gehe” (“I go”).
Gens accepted the surrender in person.
Wittenberg was taken out of the Find Your Wilde
ghetto and handed over to the Ger-
mans. When they came to his cell the
next day to begin their interrogation,
they found him dead. He had taken
poison to avoid the torture that was
awaiting him.
In July 1943, Abba Kovner be-
came the leader of the FPO, but by then
a rift had opened within the organiza-
tion. Some members argued that the
ghetto could not be defended because
most Jews were not prepared to fight.
The best way to resist the Nazis, they
felt, was through escaping to the forest
where they would join the partisans.
The first group left on July 24, 1943,
calling themselves the “Leon” unit in
honor of Wittenberg’s resistance code-
name.
September 1, 1943, saw the liqui-
dation of the ghetto. Led by Kovner,
the remaining FPO commanders is-
sued a call for the Jews not to go “like
sheep to slaughter,” and rose in revolt.
When the battle seemed lost, they es-
caped through the sewers to the forests,
where they established themselves as
Jewish battalions within the Soviet
partisan movement.
Meanwhile, back in the ghetto,
most of those who did not join the re-
volt – the majority – were captured and
sent to labor camps in Estonia, where
they were murdered by the SS. FPO
members, on the other hand, now that
they had been transformed into Sovi-
et partisans, lived to participate in the
liberation of Vilna by the Red Army on
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