Tuvia and zus bielski interview with trump

Tuvia bielski

J anuary 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day , and to commemorate that solemn day, I chose to write an article in honor and recognition of the brave Jewish resistance fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of ; theirs was a story I first learned of during my undergraduate days at the University of Southern California in a course taught by the highly erudite scholar Rabbi Mordecai Finley.

As a follow-up to that article, I shall now cover another group of Jewish freedom fighters who chose not to meekly submit to Nazi tyranny: the Bielski Partisans of German-occupied Poland in a region that now comprises western Belarus. The Bielski Partisans are undoubtedly better known to Western moviegoing audiences thanks to the motion picture Defiance starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.

On the heels of the main Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS invasion force came the brutal even by Nazi jackboot standards Einsatzgruppen , death squads that rounded up the Jews, murdered them, buried them in mass graves, and forced the remaining Jewish population into ghettos. Tuvia Bielski, already a seasoned Polish Army veteran, was placed in command of the group.

So few of us are left, we need to save lives. It is more important to save Jews than to kill Germans. Accordingly, Tuvia and his brothers fled to the Belorussian forest, whereupon they offered shelter and protection to their fellow Jews. You saw the sunshine. All we needed was food, and we [felt that we] won. If you wanted to sleep, you slept.