Abraham's Diary

Everything started in Treblinka, the Jewish hell, the most brutal and barbarous concentration camp in Germany. Let me explain to you how I was immersed in the most ominous episode of my life. I was just sixteen when my brother Elijah and I were 'aided' by two German officers who assured us that they were going to shelter us in one of the new camps built for the homeless and poverty-stricken Jews like us. Here, we would be promised access for a benevolent daily meal and a shelter to cover us from the penetrating wind and cold in the streets of Warsaw.. Who in their right mind would deny this opportunity? The opportunity of a new life, to forget the bitter loss of my parents on the war when we were just kids, a new fresh start... The chance to escape one's memory.

29th September 1942
Two hours later we arrive at the vast and weird complex. I was particularly intrigued and stupefied by the huge and grotesque chimneys expulsing a peculiarly strange and obscure mist; followed by a scandalous and repugnant smell which drew the attention of all the passengers packed on the four by eight lorry, all of them Jewish... Things were not going well... I remember seeing Elijah extremely tense, eager to uncover the mysteries that the camp was hiding behind the fence of razor-sharp barbed wire.

Abraham.

11th December 1944
The cold bites into my hand as I write this. But I feel I must write, in hope that my words might be founded by someone after all this has passed, or that the atrocities of the Nazi regime will be written and remembered in the annals of history. I exchanged two stale bread rolls for these scraps of paper and a small pencil. I needed to liberate some words, to express the agony and misery I feel every single hour I am awake in this endless nightmare... I saw someone beaten to death in the torture chamber. The shouts of lament from the prisioner were echoed to my cell. The sound penetrated through my spine, producing a sudden gasp which weakened my extremities... What panicked me further was the fact the 'picked' one, was... was... Elijah... Rest In Peace my little brother...Tears kiss my face while I write this, however I guarantee things will not stay like this, those bastards will pay for grilling my brother but I will not be the only one to make them suffer, GOD will punish them as well. As the Hebrew Bible states: "Don't try to get revenge for yourselves, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, it is written, Revenge belongs to me; I will pay it back, says the Lord." I hope the allies can liberate us from this misery, and get justice for my people, because it is not only my brother... It is an entire race. They shall pay for all the blood of our people, drop by drop, Nazi by Nazi...

Abraham.

14th of April 1946
My dear friend and comrade in Treblinka, Abba Kovner, and I founded 'The Nakam', also known as 'The Avengers'. An organization (or as I like to call it 'my only family left') whose only mission is to target all the Nazi war criminals, in order to accomplish our rallying cry: "Jewish Blood Will Be Avenged". It is as simple as that. Today was the day, the day in which the Jews will reclaim the dignity and honour that those savage Nazis have stolen from us... The day in which the world will be witness to the first act of retribution after the holocaust. 'The Nakam' was ready for our first shot: We receive a lethal and fatal poison from one of our best members, we were ready to paint with pure arsenic three thousand loaves of bread for the five thousand Nazi prisoners of war from the Langwasser internment camp near Nuremberg, Germany.

Abraham.

23rd of April 1946
Few days have passed, and our plan went even better than expected; The New York Times had reported that more than two thousand German prisoners had fallen ill, at least three hundred hospitalized 'seriously ill'. I couldn't be more proud. That article simply makes me a new man, and finally I can say that the death of six million of my compatriots including the slaughter of my brother was not in vain. The globe was now concerned, with the law of Talion, performed by sixty brave men. Finally, let me explain you the principle of the law of Talion which appears in the Hebrew Sacred book and that you must've heard before: Eye for an eye.

Abraham.