Bielski partisans

Some Jews joined partisan groups, the ‘official’ title of armed resistors of the Nazis. Partisans were the most traditional and direct form of resistance to the German onslaught. They sabotaged the Germans by disabling German trains, blowing up railroads, and destroying bridges, but also did more violent things such as engaging in shootouts with Nazis, and attacking those suspected of killing Jews (Bielski 1). Most partisan resistance focused more on rescue and aiding those in hiding, however (Armed 1). The two most well-known partisan groups were the Bielski partisans, and the Armée Juive (Jewish Army). The Bielskis were three brothers-Tuvia, Asael, and Zus, who started a partisan group after the Germans killed their parents and two other brothers while living in the Nowogrodek ghetto. The Bielski partisans eventually reached a peak of 1,230 people, 70% of which were women, elderly people, or children (Bielski 1). If the Bielski partisans directly saved 1,230 people, they could have indirectly saved many more because they were well known for destroying German trains and railways. The Armée Juive, which is French for “The Jewish Army,” was a partisan group working in…

of shoes, but after giving Wiener the visa the Nazi says, “You Jew, you will not have time to wear out one pair of shoes.” This interaction between Wiener and the Nazi gives Wiener the will to live and to resist and fight so that after the war he would be able to find that Nazi back and kill him. In Defiance, brothers Tuvia and Zus Bielski find their thirst for revenge after their parents and other villagers are killed by the local police on the orders of the Germans. From that point forward the…

A childhood survivor of the Holocaust, Tec researched the legend of the Bielski Otriad by interviewing survivors in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Her documentation of these stories is both eye-opening and brutal, with raw and intensely personal recounts of life in the Otriad. As informative and influential as Tec’s work is, the plot of Zwick’s film strays from it in drastic ways, sadly to it’s detriment. Comparing Tec’s scholarly work and Zwick’s blockbuster film is like comparing a Da Vinci…

Congressional approval ratings have proven to be dependent upon the partisan lens in which the public views their legislative decisions. The public tends to have higher approval ratings when Congress approves legislation that aligns with their political views and lower approval ratings when congress approves legislation that does not. However, in “How Partisan Conflict in Congress Affects Public Opinion: Strategies, Outcomes, and Issue Differences” Flynn and Harbridge examine how approval…

Page feels today’s way of communicating politics makes it hard to find consensus. Douglas says partisan rhetoric is the new civil discourse. He feels that “candidates have tossed aside civility” (Douglas 105), and Page gives an example of this when talking about a verbal/physical fight that broke out during a debate. Resnick says “congressional hearing are… [just] opportunities for politicians to grandstand rather than talk” (1), and Douglas feels “politicians focus more on blaming their…

executing Jews. Among the survivors not slaughtered or confined to ghettos are the Belarusian Jewish Bielski siblings: Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron. Their parents are dead, executed by neighborhood police under requests from the possessing Germans. The siblings escape to the Naliboki Forest, vowing to vindicate the passings of their folks. They encounter other Jewish escapers stowing away in the woods, and the siblings take them under their assurance and authority. Throughout the following year,…

I. Leokadia Jaromirska Leokadia Jaromirska lived in the Warsaw suburb of Bialoleka. 1942, while on her way to work with another woman, they heard the cries of children and saw a little girl and an eight-month-old baby abandoned near the fence of a convent. Leokadia convinced the other woman to take the girls home with her. After work she hurried back to the other woman 's home, where she found out that the woman had panicked and brought the older girl to the police station. Leokadia took the…

peoples, who treated him as a national hero. To understand Tito’s rise it is necessary to explain historical events occurring between 1941 and 1945. In early 1941 the Communists were extremely unpopular in the kingdom ruled by Alexander. However, WWII raging all over the Europe reached Yugoslavia and in April 1941, the Nazis attacked the country. With the government armed forces surrendering after 11 days of struggle, the Communist partisans were the only soldiers, who continued to fight the…

people were too scared to fight back, but not everyone; some were eager to rise up to the occasion. Resistance groups were determined to stop at nothing until they punished the former Nazis that inflicted so much pain. Nakam, a Jewish partisan resistance movement from Palestine, was one of these groups. They had one ultimate goal: to avenge the lives lost during the Holocaust. It was Nakam’s incentive for their actions that drove their extreme efforts of…

The judicial selection systems in the United States are different all over the country. All fifty states have one of the basic patterns of selecting judges. There are partisan elections, nonpartisan elections, appointments, and appointments with retention election. Partisan elections, like the system we have in Texas currently works by each candidate having to run under a party affiliation. In a partisan election candidates first run in a primary election and it also incorporates…