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The Avengers
  • Published: 2 November 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099289494
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $25.00
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The Avengers



'Gripping and even inspiring' Sunday Times

When they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. Abba, leader of the young people in the ghetto and Rushka and Vitka were his deputies. Together they organised the first underground movement in Europe, mapping the sewers and using the tunnels beneath the city to smuggle food and weapons into and out of the ghetto. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto and led their band of resistance fighters deep into the forests of Poland, where they lived for the remainder of the war. From here, they bombed the occupied city they loved. When the war was over Abba, Vitka and Rushka went to Israel, but they did not forget what they had learned in Vilna and in the forest.

  • Published: 2 November 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099289494
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $25.00
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About the author

Rich Cohen

Date: 2005-01-07
Rich Cohen is an editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and the author of four books, including Tough Jews and the widely acclaimed memoir Sweet and Low.

Rich Cohen is the author of Tough Jews, The Avengers, Lake Effect, Sweet and Low and Israel is Real. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and lives in New York City.

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