BEST OF (#65 of 518) DEFIANCE: (PT 1) THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE BIELSKI BROTHERS :TRAGEDY IN BELARUS
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This is part one of the story of the Bielski Brothers- a tightly knit group of 4 brothers- the yoiungest 13, and the oldest 33, who formed an armed resistance group in the forests of Belarus during WWII to save Jews from certain death in the hands of the Nazis. Led by Tuvia Bielsky, the group created a working community in the forest which was capable of defending itself against Germans, formed an alliance with a local Russian partisan group from whom they were able to get their first weapons, and raided German patrols and camps for weapons, medicine, and food on a regular basis, killing hundreds of Nazis in the process. They saved 1, 246 Jews from death through their efforts, which basically went unheard of until fairly recetly when Tuvia Bielsky's journal was translated from Yiddish to English. The movie "Defiance", starring Daniel Craig, which was released in 2008 and is currently shown on Netflix, is closely based upon this story. In later parts we will cover the making of the movie.
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| 1:06.2 | The world is at war, and you are considered the target of a powerful and well-armed military force. |
| 1:13.3 | You, as well as the hundreds of others who are trying to survive in this constantly hunted |
| 1:17.6 | and constantly moving forest camp, have one thing in common, and that's your religion, |
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