With a Rifle in My Hand and Eretz Yisrael in My Heart, Dov Levin

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VII. Epilogue (cont.)

Even subsequently for decades following the hasty Aliyah of the members of the Zionist camp of Soviet Kovno they did not join us. A few of them managed to join our ranks.

Significant presence of the second
generation at gatherings from 1965 and on

As time went by, these meetings were transformed into a sort of workshop for recording historic accounts on the subject of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust that still serve institutions of higher learning and academies throughout the Jewish world. This started during the course of our gatherings in the 1950s when Zvi A. Baron and I were requested to provide research papers on the resistance in Kovno Ghetto and the forests giving proper credit to the activities of the members of our group both individually and collectively. Naturally, we were helped a great deal by information that the veterans of Mildos 7 and others supplied in writing and orally through tape recordings. This painstaking work eventually produced a series of publications such as, “The Fortress Number Nine” in Sefer ha-Partizanim ha-Yehudim, Volume I, Merhavia, 1958, pp. 197-257; “The Fighter Organization of Kovno Ghetto” in Bi-Tefutzot ha-Golah, No. 30-31, Jerusalem, 1964, pp. 56-66; “To the Rudniki Forests” in They Fought Back, Tel Aviv, 1964, pp. 61-65; “Horror and Heroism” in From Beginning to End, Tel Aviv, 1985, pp. 261-311, and others. [All these documents were written in Hebrew and many have synopses in English.]

Our steadfast colleague Haim Galeen, has after a long period provided us with a vivid and detailed description on the activities and way of life at Mildos 7 and in the partisan forest in his book An Eye Looks to Zion, House of Fighters, 2001. It comes as no surprise that the enthusiastic reception held on the publication of this captivating book at the Igud Yotzei Lita (Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel) on 16

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March 2001 turned into a reunion of the Mildos 7 veterans.

The second generation of the founders of
Kibbutz Mildos 7, at a “Salute to their Parents”

Most recent reunion of the Mildos 7 veterans at the Iggud Yotzei Lita
(Organization of Former Residents of Lithuania [in Israel])

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