Yitzchak Avidov

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Yitzchak Avidov

Jitzchak Avidov (until 1945 Pascha Reichman (n) ; * 1917 in Poland , † 2005 in Israel ) was a Jewish partisan in World War II . After the end of the war, he worked as the deputy head of the secret organization Nakam ( he : revenge ; actually Dam Yehudi Nakam , in German about The Jewish blood will be avenged ). Later he was a member of the Hagana , the Israel Defense Forces and most recently in a leading position in the Mossad . His plan, devised together with Abba Kovner , to avenge the Holocaust by killing millions of Germans , stalled in execution. Until the end of his life he regretted the missed opportunity in 1945.

Life

Avidov, Vilnius , 1944

As a partisan in Ukraine, Reichman fought the German occupiers for several years. Later he participated with his wife Dora Avidov (born Dora Gold Reich, born 1915 in Poland, † 2007 in Israel) on the escape aid for Jews from Eastern Europe in the British Mandate of Palestine . In the post-war period he was active in the Nakam as the deputy of Abba Kovner , whom he met in December 1944 in liberated Lublin . Their jointly devised plan to take revenge for the millions of Jews murdered during the Holocaust and to murder millions of Germans for it came to a halt when Kovner was arrested by the British secret service in 1945 when he tried to return to Europe and imprisoned in Egypt .

Reichman, as Kovner's deputy, now initiated Plan B, the poisoning of former SS members. In SS POW camp Langwasser in Nuremberg who had allied 12,000 SS men interned. On the night of April 13-14, 1946, the Nakam people managed to break into a large Nuremberg bakery and to coat 3000 loaves of bread with arsenic . The bread was delivered on April 15, 1946. The procedure was repeated on the night of April 18-1946, with poisoned bread for the SS prisoner-of-war camp in Auerbach-Bernreuth with around 10,500 inmates. Thousands of camp inmates became seriously ill. The number of dead is given differently, sometimes with zero, then between 200 and 1000, also 700–800. There was never a judicial review of the case. The Nuremberg Public Prosecutor closed the investigation in 2000 due to exceptional circumstances.

Back in Palestine, Pasha Reichman changed his name to Jitzchak Avidov and became a member of the Hagana and later the Israel Defense Forces . Most recently, he held a leading position in the Mossad .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Kugler: Nitzlbuch / Bernreuth. History of a rural region in the northern Upper Palatinate , Auerbach 2000, p. 624f.
  2. ↑ Jim G. Tobias, Peter Zinke: Nakam. Jewish revenge on Nazi perpetrators. Konkret Literaturverlag, Hamburg 2000, p. 47, ISBN 3-89458-194-8
  3. ^ Avi Avidov: Attempts at Revenge . In Jewish Resitance in the Holocaust (Online, see link under web links)
  4. ↑ Gianantonio Valli: L'assassinio dei nazionalsocialisti da parte dei "Vendicatori" (online, see link under web links)
personal data
SURNAME Avidov, Yitzchak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichman, Pasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH 2005
Place of death Israel