Solidarity in the Forest – The Bielski Brothers by Josiane Minier

July 1944

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a group of partisans from different brigardes guarding the airstrip in the Naliboki forest.

How create this group ?

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Bielski partisans was create by four Bielski brothers named ; Tuvia, Alexander, Asael, Aron in the spring 1942. Tuvia was the first leader because he was the oldest brother, he also served in the polish army in 1927 to 1929 so he had good millitary concept. He command with Alexander leader of the group too while Asael was the second in command of the brielski partisans. To finish, Aron was a former member! They put in place the group together with 40 peolples first but quickly grew.

Little introduction

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Partisans operating in the forest of Belarus

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three Bielski brothers

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Tuvia Bielski and his partisans

citation of Robert.E Lee

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"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/topics/top-10-war-quotes"

some facts

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the peoples of the group spend more than 2 years in the forest that is why we gave them this name. At the end of the war, they were approximatly 1236 menbers! The Bielski unit's partisans were not a group of soldiers, They were not assigned main combat roles. They used poor equipement too. At first, their main plan was to recover the foods for the jews and later they changed. The Bielski partisans decided to save more jews and kill.

the beggining

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In june 1941, the German trops invaded soviet Union. Tuvia and his brothers was there when they forced the remaining jewish population into guetto. It was a big massacre for 5,000 jews. The parent's of the Bielski brother's, David and Belia, founds the dead there. Many people fled in the forest and that is how a partisan unit was created.

a citation of the partisans

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"We cannot simply hide ourselves. We must do something for our people. We cannot sit in the bushes and wait until the wolf comes for us. We must send people to the ghettos to save Jews.”

cibles of the Partisans

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The Bielski partisans targets included Germans ans their collaborators.They can be policeme, spies or provocateurs. Basically, they killed the peoples they suspected. For exemple, The group extracted from Ivan Tzewikes a name of a several collaborators because he gived bad treatment to many jews that is wht he was killed.

relations with other

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The group of supporters had good friendly relations with a local commander called Kacper. Kacper was an army lieutenant. According to Tuvia ( the oldest brother's) he feltdeep sympathy for them. The partisans also had good relations with the Soviets wich allowed them to regain control of Biélorussie.

statistics

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the partisans unit were able to deraill hundreds of trains and they also kill over 3,000 Germain soldier. They were able to destroyed two locomotive in a special assessment of combat operations. The Bielski partisans claimed 32 telegragh poles during the war and even destroyed 23 train car approximately.

the end

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In the summer of 1944, the Soviet have stopped their relationship with the partisans because the Soviet was started to interrogating about the Bielski brother's. They learned rumors of loot they had reportedly collected during the war. They suspect the group and the Bielski brothers fled.

books

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indeed, we can buy books of the strory! the books explain why the Bielski brothers start a group of partisan and how. We learn about the beggining of the familly and their action to take revenge! There are two books online, one with 336 pages and another more longer with more detail.

The books of the story

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