Ok, so its Hollywood, but it is based on a book by Nechama Tec entitled "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans". The issue is the degree to which European Jews resisted the extermination of the "final solution" by the Nazis. The story is set in Belarus during WWII and tells of the efforts of two brothers to "keep 1200 Jews alive until the war ended". The writer of this piece notes the "standard cliches of the Holocaust...that Europe's Jews were exterminated without offering any resistance, historians have gradually uncovered evidence to the contrary". The movie is called "Defiance".
(Source: "Brothers defy the odds" by Kenneth Turan of the LA Times. In The Record on January 2, 2009)
(Source: "Brothers defy the odds" by Kenneth Turan of the LA Times. In The Record on January 2, 2009)
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