This post is an update of an earlier report on the movie "Defiance" and Jewish resistance to the Nazis in Poland. The movie was filmed near Vilnius, the site of the killing of 21,000 Jews by German troops in June of 1941. The survivors were relocated into "two prisonlike ghettoes". The Bielski brothers fought back and established a haven for 1200 people in a forest. They lived there for 3 years and build a "community" of workshops a library and theater. The Germans were never able to clear out the forest while escapees lived in "dugout tunnels". Tuvia Bielski and the 1200 survive the war; he goes to Israel and then NYC where he drives a taxi. He died in 1987.
(Source: "Craig breaks his bond(s)" by Mal Vincent. The Virginian Pilot on January 16,2009)
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