I really liked the movie Defiance. Tuvia Bielski was a very brave leader. He was able to lead not only his brothers, but 1200 other Jews to safety before the end of the war. I found it amazing that in the movie he just happened upon many of the Jews he helped. In all of the accounts I read on him, he was more organized and willing to go out of his way to get the Jews. I don’t think in many cases, the Jews just randomly showed up or found their way to the Bielski partisans. I also read that both Tuvia and Zus were part of the Soviet army. In the movie only Zus was a part of the army along with the few other volunteers rallied from the forest people. One thing that I didn’t like about the movie was the romantisized parts of Tuvia and Zilka’s
