The Nakam
The Nakam, or “Revenge” in Hebrew, was a group of about 50 Holocaust survivors who, in 1945, sought to kill Germans and Nazis in revenge for the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust, following the idea of “a nation for a nation.” Their Plan A attempt by leader Abba Kovner (pictured) was to poison the water supply of Nuremberg, Weimar, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich, but he was caught and had to toss the poison.
Turning to Plan B, they instead targeted German prisoners of war held by the United States.
They infiltrated the bakeries that supplied the prison camps, and using locally obtained arsenic they poisoned 3,000 loaves of bread at a bakery in Nuremberg, which sickened more than 2,000 German prisoners of war at Langwasser internment camp.
However, no known deaths can be attributed to the group.
