Bielski partisans

The Second World War - Organisations - Poland
Jewish collaborators

The Bielski partisans were a unit of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought the German occupiers and their collaborators around Nowogródek (Navahrudak) and Lida (now in western Belarus) in German-occupied Poland. The partisan unit was named after the Bielskis, a family of Polish Jews who organized and led the organization.

The Bielski partisans spent more than two years living in the forest. By the end of the war they numbered as many as 1,236 members, most of whom were non-combatants, including children and the elderly. The Bielski partisans are seen by many Jews as heroes for having led as many refugees as they did away from the perils of war and the Holocaust. They ultimately saved the lives of more than 1,200 Jews.

However, as their relations with the non-Jewish population were strained and occasionally violent, their wartime record has been the subject of some controversy in Poland.

Some Bielski partisans (but not the Bielski brothers themselves) have been accused of war crimes against the neighboring population, particularly of involvement in 1943 in the Naliboki massacre of 129 people (different sources say 128-250 victims).

Historian Kazimierz KrajewskiKazimierz Krajewski (born in 1955) - Polish historian specializing in the history of Poland and world history of the 20th century, chief specialist of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. In 2012, he obtained a PhD in humanities at the Faculty of Humanities at UWM in Olsztyn. In 2009, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding achievements in disseminating knowledge about the recent history of Poland. In 2017, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding achievements in preserving the memory of the recent history of Poland, for his veteran and social activities. lists other incidents in which Bielski partisans were involved, in addition to the surprise attack against a Home ArmyHome Army (AK, polish: Armia Krajowa) – the clandestine armed forces of the Polish Underground State during World War II. unit in December 1943 after it had signed an agreement of cooperation with Soviet partisans, in which over a dozen Home Army soldiers were murdered, and in following days 50 more were killed. In May 1944 the village of Kamień, in Stolpce, was attacked by a force involving Bielski partisans; 20 Home Army soldiers and 20 civilians were killed. In May 1944 a unit of the Ordzhonikidze sub-group of the Bielski partisans, together with Soviets, murdered 47 Poles in the Lida region, in Filonowiec and Dokudowa, mainly civilian families accused of supporting the Polish Home Army.

Bielski partisans are guilty of collaboration with Soviet regime, war crimes, murders and executions of civilians and robberies.

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