On the way, he said, they stopped in at the movie set in Vilnius to speak with “Defiance” director Ed Zwick. An aunt who went there subsequently described it simply as “a town with few Jews.” Feit said the members of the Brooklyn survivors group looked “like your typical bubby and zaydie. They loved their families and children above everything. In addition, he noted, the moviemakers “embellished the ferocity” of the fighting. “People think of the Jews as demure lambs led to the slaughter,” he said, “but there were many, many heroes. Feit will screen a brief segment from “The Bielski Brothers: Jerusalem in the Woods,” a documentary that aired on the History Channel in 2006 and in which four of the above survivors participated. “My mother didn’t talk very much about [her experiences],” he said, “probably to protect me and my sister.” She did, however, talk to Peter Duffy, author of “The Bielski Brothers” (HarperCollins, 2003). However, I feel that more "compassionate" men would never have been able to accomplish what the Bielski Brothers did. Feit will screen a brief segment from “The Bielski Brothers: Jerusalem in the Woods,” a documentary that aired on the History Channel in 2006 and in which four of the above survivors participated.
Living in Soviet-held territory, Asael Bielski was conscripted into the Red Army and was tragically killed in battle in February 1945. After that, they moved to Elizabeth.
His mother was one of those rescued. While his father and uncles “looked like anybody else,” he said, “they were bigger than life in the eyes of our family and those they saved.” “They went into the woods to save their own lives, but their [quest] for survival turned into the largest armed Jewish resistance in World War II,” he said, explaining that while they had originally hoped simply to meld into the woods and not be discovered, their group kept growing as they met Jewish escapees in the forest.“They had to make a decision whether to organize them or go their separate ways,” he said, noting that this father believed there was strength in numbers and also hoped to create an alliance with Soviet partisans.
During his trip, Bielsky “went to the places they went. After his mother died, Feit read the Duffy book and became more interested in what his mother had gone through. But this is balanced by the value of actually hearing the voices and seeing the faces of those who were there; when one woman sings a song of the camp, the decades suddenly collapse. Other groups, he said, limited themselves to fighting men. “We all remained close, including first and second cousins.” Of the four original Bielski partisans, only Aron, the youngest, is still alive. Not only did they fight the enemy, but by the end of the war the group had rescued more than 1,200 men, women, and children.
After the Nazis invaded their town and forced all Jews into the ghettos of Lida and Nowogrodek, three of the Bielski brothers escaped to the nearby forest. In 1957, they came to the United States.
The Brothers all had flaws, and the author Peter Duffy, does not gloss over the flaws. More than 375 partisans and their descendants attended the screening in November at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. It’s insane,” he said.
The items discovered there are now housed in the Florida Holocaust Museum. “On a rainy night in September, we decided to try to crawl out.
In 2006, the History Channel aired a documentary titled The Bielski Brothers: Jerusalem in the Woods, written and directed by filmmaker Dean Ward. They didn’t look like fighters.” While survivors from Lida and their families gather each May, the number of survivors is growing “smaller and smaller,” he said. People were always coming by to thank my father for saving their lives and allowing their families to regenerate.” Jerusalem in the woods documentary over 3 three brothers that made a haven for jews during the Holacaust that saved over 1,000 Jews Loading... Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. As the gravity of the situation dawned on them, three Bielski brothers, Tuvia, Asael and Zus, who had been finding shelter with sympathetic gentiles, decided that their only hope for survival lay in the dense surrounding forests that they knew so well. His 22-year-old son, Jordan, was given a small role in the film.“All in all, the movie was very accurate,” although some historical events were out of order, said Bielsky.
The Brothers were vengeful, murderous, and tyrannical. “They were still standing,” he said.
Caught once again, she and fellow prisoners built a tunnel to the outside.
But Robert Bielsky – son of the brigade’s commander, Tuvia Bielski – has heard the story all his life. Robert Bielsky, together with six of these survivors, will speak about the Bielski Brigade at a May 17 program at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Cong. “There’s a bond among all those who survived,” he said, noting that his parents lived 10 blocks away from his uncle Zus’s family.
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