
3.4“Freedom begins with an act of defiance”/ December 31, 2008
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
“Freedom begins with an act of defiance”

Tuvia Bielski

Zus Bielski

Asael Bielski

Lilka Ticktin

Curated based on cinematic style, tone, and audience acclaim
Shimon Haretz

Isaac Malbin

Ben Zion Gulkowitz

Tamara Skidelsky

Riva Reich

Yitzhak Shulman

Bella

Peretz Shorshaty