Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!

"Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!" (Hebrew: !אל נלך כצאן לטבח) is a pamphlet and manifesto created in 1942 by Jewish partisan and poet Abba Kovner to try to convince Jews in the Vilnius area to take up arms against their German invaders.[1]

Background

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched their invasion of the Soviet Union, which included Kovner's homeland of Lithuania. As the Germans took control of the land, they began to institute anti-Jewish policies as part of the larger Holocaust. Kovner knew of the German plan to kill Jews, among other groups, and urged a militant response to it. The pamphlet, distributed around Vilnius, reminded Jews of various atrocities committed by the Germans, and called upon them to fight back in self-defense.[2]

gollark: And "who can pay most" is simple and objective.
gollark: For example, you're incentivised to not spent unreasonable amounts of it, because you have finite amounts of it and it's hard to get.
gollark: Using money has many advantages.
gollark: I mean, what's the alternative? Give it to someone *randomly*? Allocate it based on some notion of what's "best for society", which you probably can't calculate in a way everyone will agree on?
gollark: Something something noncentral fallacy. Just because it has aspects similar to bribes, doesn't mean all the bad connotations of "bribe" should reasonably be carried along.

References
  1. "'Let Us Not Die as Sheep Led to the Slaughter'". Haaretz. 2007-12-06. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  2. "Holocaust Survivors: Texts - "The First Call: Manifesto of Jewish Resistance by Abba Kovner"". www.holocaustsurvivors.org. Retrieved 2019-04-23.


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