Written by Parisa Zarringhalam:
"I recently watched the movie "Defiance" which is about the Bielski brothers, and how they rescued over a thousand Jews who were being slaughtered in German-occupied Poland. In this amazing story, the brothers hid in the woods for over 3 years, fighting off Nazis, and surviving even though all the odds were against them. But the most astonishing and awesome thing about this whole story is that it's true. The Bielski brothers are real people who saved over 1,200 other, real people from facing the Death camps. Originally the boys were war refugees, whose parents, friends, and family had been killed by the Nazis liquidating the Ghettos. However they soon started saving people as well as stealing from Germans and collaborators. Once they actually snuck into a Ghetto and convinced an extremely large amount of people to sneak out with them. Tuvia, Zus, Asael Bielski promised to protect all these people, young and elderly, and they did in the Naliboki Forest for three years until the Nazi threat was over. Their story is not a well known one because the brothers didn't want it to be. Eventually, Tuvia and Zus immigrated to New York City, with their wives they had met in the forest, and opened up a small trucking business together. Their children and grandchildren still live in Brooklyn, NY."
Gus says: This sounds like a great film. Reviews and synopsis at imdb.com are impressive. Sounds like a good film to watch when we get to WWII.
