"All the roads of the Gestapo lead to Ponar. Let us not go like "sheep to the slaughter. "Brothers! Better to fall as free fighters than to live at the mercy of murderers."- Abba Kovner, leader of Nakam.
The Holocaust was the deliberate, bureaucratic, state-supported oppression and homicide of six million Jews by the Nazi administration and its teammates. Adolf Hitler, who rose to power in Germany in September of 1919, was responsible for the death of 11 million people. 1.1 million of those people were children, 6 million were Jewish, the rest were homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, disabled people, and people who defied the Nazis. The torture of the concentration camps, the loss of nearly all your family, and the oppression of the Jewish people struck a chord in the hearts of the remaining Jews after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Once the Holocaust was over, the Jewish population was angry and vengeful, so they decided to take matters in their hands. Jews would borrow British officer outfits and pretend to arrest suspected Nazi soldiers and kill them. Some would even make them dig their own grave and admit to the crimes they have committed, followed by the quick pull of a trigger or other method of killing. But one group wanted more, they didn't want to just kill some Nazis, they wanted to have the fullest form of revenge. That is when the Nuka was born.
Led by Abba Kovner, a poet, writer, and partisan leader, he and one other man named Pasha Reichman were discussing one day that they weren't leaving Europe until they have settled the score with the Germans. Abba was joyous that someone thought exactly what he did, he wanted revenge, but he wanted exactly what every Jewish citizen had gone through and reciprocate that to the Germans. Kovner rounded up about 50 members in the beginning and gave the group a name; Nakam, which means "revenge" in Hebrew.
