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Bielski brothers (Tuvia, Alexander, Asael, Aron) The Bielski partisans were a unit of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought the German occupiers and their collaborators around Novogrudok and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus ).
After the Germans killed their parents and two brothers in the Nowogrodek ghetto in December 1941, three surviving brothers of the Bielski family—Tuvia (1906–1987), Asael (1908–1945), and Zus (1910–1995)—established a partisan group. Initially, the Bielski brothers attempted only to save their own lives and those of their family members.
May 13, 2016 · By the autumn of 1942, the Bielski group had grown to include nearly 100 members. While the Bielskis’ principal focus was saving the lives of fellow Jews, the brothers moved quickly to build a fighting force to strike back against the Nazis and their supporters.
The story of the Bielski brothers can be used to teach about Jewish partisans and Jewish leadership and the difficulties they faced, Jewish solidarity, dilemmas, courage, hope and human values during the Holocaust.
Bielski partisans, organization of Jewish partisans who fought Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1942 and 1944 in occupied Poland (now Belarus). Established by brothers Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski, the group conducted guerrilla operations and provided shelter and protection to some 1,200.
May 11, 2016 · The Bielski brothers led a group of partisans responsible for saving more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
The Bielski family were millers, successful farmers and entrepreneurs. The brothers - Tuvia, Zus and Aasel were to lose their parents and siblings to the cruelty of the Nazis, which began with the creation of ghettos and led on to mass slaughters such as one in which 5,500 people were herded to the outskirts of Lida and machine-gunned into ...
