Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye

Abba Kovner (back row, centre) with members of the FPO in Vilna

The Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (Yiddish: פֿאַראײניקטע פּאַרטיזאַנער אָרגאַניזאַציע; "United Partisan Organization"; referred to as FPO by its Yiddish initials) was a Jewish resistance organization based in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania that organized armed resistance against the Nazis during World War II.[1][better source needed] The clandestine organisation was established by communist and Zionist partisans. Their leaders were writer Abba Kovner, Josef Glazman and Yitzhak Wittenberg.

  1. ^ Yad Vashem Shoah Resource Center, The International School for Holocaust Studies. United Partisan Organization, Vilna.

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