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.
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One of my distant relatives was one of these partisan fighters during WWII. He escaped from a concentration camp in Ukraine by hijacking a truck. Next, he fled to a nearby town where he was saved by a priest. He then left the priest disguised as a firefighter. He hitched a ride with a truck driver, only to discover the driver was very anti-Semitic and dangerous. My relative knew he had to leave, so he told the driver he had to pee, and ran off into the forest. That night, after making camp in the Ukrainian woods, he suddenly heard voices. Afraid of the Nazis, he stayed hidden, until he noticed they spoke in Yiddish! He came out to introduce himself, only to discover they were a group of partisan warriors, who fought the Nazis, often using guerrilla tactics and stealing or creating homemade weapons. Once while in battle, he was shot in the face by a Nazi and lost his eye. He had a glass eye for the rest of his life. After the war, he moved to New York City and later to California. He has died, but his wife, who he met at a displaced persons camp directly after the war, is alive in her nineties and still working out.
This was a great film. I feel that Daniel Craig is a good actor because he's not perfect like the Brad Pitts of the world, he seems like a relatable regular person, with a few little wrinkles here and there. He is the hero for the minority people in this movie, and that kind of parallels for what I think he stands for as an actor, just very real and normal.
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