"We won't go like lambs to the slaughter."

There the idea of the uprising took shape, and became based around Kovner's declaration: "Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!"

At the start of 1942, Kovner released a manifesto in the Vilna ghetto, twice repeating the phrase "Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!"

More pointedly, Moshe Gorelick, in an article in a haredi weekly titled "Even in Israel They Deny the Holocaust," said the official Holocaust Day explicitly disdained those who "kept their godly souls until the last minute" as "going like lambs to the slaughter."