Tuvia Bielski

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Tuvia Bielski (born May 8, 1906 in Stankewitschi, Hrodsenskaja Woblasz , Russian Empire ; † June 12, 1987 in Brooklyn , New York ) was a Polish - Jewish partisan leader during the Second World War .

Life

Tuvia Bielski had served in the Polish army and was active in the Zionist youth movement. The Bielski partisans named after him emerged soon after the German attack on the Soviet Union from a small group of people, who were initially Bielski, his brothers and a few friends and acquaintances. For the time being, they tried to evade German access by escaping to the Naliboki forests . From there, they began to expand their community by taking in other Jews, thereby giving them a chance to survive. This went hand in hand with the fight against collaborators and locals who denounced or murdered Jews . Through their resistance and active struggle, their community finally expanded to more than 1,200 people who were able to survive in a specially built log cabin village, also known as Jerusalem in the woods , until the liberation by the Red Army.

After the war, Bielski returned to Poland. In 1945 he went to Palestine and later emigrated to the United States with one of his brothers .

reception

In 2008, his war experiences provided the template for the feature film Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up .

Bielski's memoirs, a manuscript written in Yiddish that was discovered in the Bielski's estate at the Yivo Institute in New York in 2009 , is to be translated and edited by a project at the Yivo Institute.

literature

  • Arno Lustiger : To the struggle to the life and death! On the resistance of the Jews in Europe 1933-1945. DTV, Cologne 1994.
  • Nechama Tec : I wanted to save. The incredible story of the Bielski partisans. Construction-Verlag: Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7466-8085-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Hudson: Tuvia Bielsky, who fought the Nazis in Byelorussia, is dead. in: The New York Times , Saturday June 13, 1987, Late City Final Edition, Section 1; Page 44, column 3.
  2. ↑ http://www.yivo.org/index.php?tid=192&aid=1067  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.yivo.org  
personal data
SURNAME Bielski, Tuvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Jewish resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Stankewitschi ( Hrodsenskaja Woblasz ), Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1987
Place of death Brooklyn , New York