Tuvia bielski biography of mahatma gandhi

Tuvia Bielski (May 8, 1906 – June 12, 1987) was the leader of the partisan group the Bielski partisans who were situated in the Naliboki forest in pre-war Poland (now western Belarus) during World War II.

Life

Tuvia grew up in the only Polish Jewish family in Stankiewicze, a small village in Eastern Poland (now Western Belarus) located between towns of Lida and Navahrudak (both housed Jewish ghettoes during World War II.) He was the son of David and Beila Bielski, who had twelve children: ten boys and two girls.

Tuvia was the second eldest, after Velvel. His brothers Asael, Alexander ('Zus') and Aron were later to become members of his partisan group.

During World War I, Bielski spent a lot of time with German soldiers occupying the territories of the future Poland and Belarus.

Tuvia bielski biography of mahatma gandhi

Already a speaker of Yiddish, he learned to speak German from these men and remembered it all his life. In 1927, he was recruited into the Polish Army. After his military s