The Bielski Brothers
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- This is an article about a book. For the Jewish partian group it describes, see Bielski partisans.
The Bielski Brothers is a book by Peter Duffy published in 2003. It tells the a story of Tuvia, Zusia, and Asael Bielski, three Jewish brothers who established a large partisan camp in the forests of Belorussia during World War II, and so saved 1,200 Jews while fighting the Nazi forces.
At the end of the war, with Soviet control of Belorussia becoming increasingly oppressive, Tuvia Bielski and his brothers fled to Romania, traveling on to Mandatory Palestine and eventually to the USA.
Allegations of atrocities committed against the civilian population by the Bielski partisans are not discussed in Duffy's book.
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[edit] Other treatments
US academic Nechama Tec published a previous book, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans in 1994. Currently a film on the Bielski partisans is being planned for 2006 by Warner Bros, directed by Philip Noyce.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Peter Duffy, The Bielski Brothers : The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews, Harper Perennial, 2004, ISBN 0-06-093553-7
[edit] Further reading
- Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-19-509390-9
