The Avengers: A Jewish War Story (also published as The Avengers) by Rich Cohen is a gripping non-fiction book published in 2000. It tells the true story of a group of young Jewish resistance fighters during and after World War II, focusing on their armed struggle against the Nazis and their quest for revenge.
During the Holocaust, Jewish women played extraordinary roles in resistance against the Nazis, defying both the machinery of genocide and the gender norms of their time. Far from being passive victims, many became armed fighters, couriers, saboteurs, and leaders in ghettos, forests, and camps.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a small group of Jewish Holocaust survivors known as Nakam (“Revenge” in Hebrew) planned one of the most audacious acts of retribution in modern history.
The poisoned bread incident remains one of the most direct and documented acts of Jewish postwar revenge. It stands as a raw, controversial marker of the moral and psychological landscape left behind by the Holocaust—a moment when a handful of survivors tried to answer unimaginable loss with an act of calculated retribution.