“Let us Not Go Like Sheep to the Slaughter”
On the night between 31 December 1941 and 1 January 1942 – New Year’s Eve – about 150 members of the underground pioneer youth movements that were active in the Vilna ghetto gathered in the soup-kitchen on 2 Straszuna Street, inside the ghetto.
In the course of that evening a proclamation was read. That proclamation symbolized the initial idea of resistance which started to bloom in the minds of those youth movement members, after experiencing the mass massacre of their Jewish brothers and sisters in Lithuania. The original document, handwritten by Abba Kovner, is preserved in the Moreshet Archive, located in Givat Haviva, Israel.
More about this unique document can be found in the EHRI Document Blog –
https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2019/06/12/first-call-for-resistance/
