For many Jews the warwas not over in May 1945 and the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals was not enough. Under the leadership of the charismatic young poet and partisan Abba Kovner , theyformed a group of avengers to track down and execute known Nazis. Now 50 years afterthe judgement at the Nurembergtrials, the surviving avengers, including Kovner's widow, tell for the first time the story of how the group set out on a campaign of mass murder.