Summary Of The Bielski Brothers: A Family Of Jews In The Holocaust

The Bielski brothers were four, Tuvia, Alexander is also known as Zus, Asael, and Aron. Tuvia and Zus being the oldest. They were a family of Jews during the Holocaust in World War II. When the German soldiers killed their parents, Zus, Asael, and Aron went to the wood to wait for their other brother Tuvia. Once Tuvia came, they decided to hide in the woods. Aron saw how the Germans killed his parents, therefore he got a trauma, and didn’t talk. Along their journey through the wood they meet other Jews that were escaping from the Germans too. At the beginning when they were in the woods, the youngest brother, Aron was looking for something, when he found a girl, and other people that were with her, he led them to where his other brothers were
Little by little, more people found them, and they would come along with them. With the many people that came to them, they were able to build a camp. When some people came to the camp, they told them that their wives and children were dead. Therefore Tuvia and Zus decided to go out with whoever wanted to go with them to kill Germans, the same way as how Germans would kill Jews without a reason. Asael went with them and they were killing Germans, however one night the Germans were more than them, and they killed some of them. Asael was able to escape, yet he went in a different direction than Tuvia and Zus. Tuvia understood that it was a mistake trying to get revenge, but the more time passed more people were coming, and they were running out of food. Tuvia decided to go to farms and get food and provisions, but only from the ones that had more than what they needed, and that they were not going to kill anybody. Tuvia’s plan didn’t went as planned because when they took the milk of a man without killing him, he went to the authorities and told them where to find them. Because of that, they found where their camp was and were obligated to move somewhere else and start over again. They tried to go to the Red Army, however they only told them that they would accept them only if they fight with the Red Army, but if they had
Where they would make them do hard work, so much that they would die. And if they didn’t died working, either way they would killed them, without a reason. That was the perspective from what the Germans did, however I didn’t knew how hard the Jews fight for their life, and all the things they did outside the concentration camp in order to survive. For example, they even had to cross a lake that was immense, they didn’t know how deep it was going to be, or if there would be something in the water like some type of snake or something. The only thing they wanted was to survive, and they were able to go across the lake, with all the bags and weapons they had. Also how all of them worked together to survive, for instance, when they crossed the lake, they tied all the belts together. Therefore they were able to grab it and go all together, so they wouldn’t get lost, or drown. How the Jews were able to build houses, nurseries, and a school into the woods, and live for more than two years there. They had to overcome many things in order to survive, and they never lost hope. Last of all, this story changed my perspective of the Holocaust, to that the Jews were really strong, all the things they went through, and how they were able to overcome many of their