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experimental abstract art with Abba! I love geometric shapes and want to use them more often, even in regular art. They carry the composition SO well....

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The first half of Kovner’s life could be adapted into a film about how terrible circumstances, violence, and oppression can drive a good person to do terrible things.

The second half of Kovner’s life could be turned into a "smokingkills" ad

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I forgive Rich Cohen's book all its sins just for this beautiful piece!!!

The warmth, solace, and love still alive in people in a tiny corner of the ghetto, among death and pain, in a world being torn apart with a roar and rapidly losing its mind.

((Lol, I hope this text passage is actually based on the story of someone from that triad, because the author is sometimes guilty of embellishing the text))

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In Kovner's book "Scrolls of Testimony", there are two self insert characters with similar biographical facts. Based on how vividly and detailed certain fragments of their stories are written, one can tell which parts likely match his actual biography. So, here are my assumptions made on this basis:

1. As a child, he was afraid of bats.

2. Also in his childhood, one of the neighborhood kids told him they didn't want to be friends with him anymore, because their parents said that Jews killed Jesus.

3. In his youth, due to childhood illnesses, he was very skinny, felt highly insecure about it, and disliked beaches.

4. In the ghetto, during a lull in the genocide, under the influence of conversations with respected members of the older generation, he worried that resisting the Germans was a foolish idea that would destroy everyone, and that perhaps keeping quiet would be much safer.

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Look at these sad, pathetic young people

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You know what? Abba Kovner just hated fun. (The 6 million Germans plan doesn't count as fun, though)

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While iving in the ghetto, Abba Kovner was radically against anything that wasn't about suffering and resistance. He didn't like that people were going to the theater for plays and concerts, reading poems, doing sports, and playing chess. On one hand, you can get where he was coming from; he hated the illusion of normalcy while his people were being wiped out, a fact that many chose to ignore. But... the truth was somewhere in the middle in their case...??? All these pieces of normal life distracted people from real problems on one side, but on the other, they gave them the strength to keep going and boosted their morale... Bro, chill, if you’d just let yourself relax at least sometimes, your mind wouldn't have snapped like a twig

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Kovner and Wittenberg would’ ve totally disliked each other and refused to even be in the same room in normal life just because of their polar opposite views. Fortunately, the Germans helped them accept each other's differences and become friends :3 /jk