Abba Kovner as a witness at the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Israel

Abba Kovner (1918 - 1987) Jewish Hebrew poet, writer and partisan leader as a witness at the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, 1961. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. in 1940, Vilnius was given to Lithuania after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and divided Poland. After occupation established the Vilna Ghetto. Kovner managed to escape .From September 1943 until the arrival of the Soviet army in July 1944, Kovner, commanded a partisan group called the Avengers ('Nokmim') in the forests near Vilna Abba Kovner testifying at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.