![Jewish partisans in Naliboki forest, near Novogrudok. [LCID: 76525]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e7ef107f-50c7-4445-88ef-365d9f2d7b63.jpg "Jewish partisans in Naliboki forest, near Novogrudok. [LCID: 76525]")
Partisans in the Naliboki forest, near Novogrudok. They were from various fighting units including the Bielski group and escapees from the Mir Ghetto on guard duty at an airstrip in the Naliboki Forest. Poland, July 1944.
Item View![Portrait of Asael Bielski, a founder of the Bielski brothers' Jewish partisan unit in Naliboki forest. [LCID: 90241]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/91e2fc41-35d7-4833-8d87-b67da46b6cc6.jpg "Portrait of Asael Bielski, a founder of the Bielski brothers' Jewish partisan unit in Naliboki forest. [LCID: 90241]")
Portrait of Asael Bielski, a founder of the Bielski brothers' Jewish partisan unit in Naliboki forest. He was killed on the Soviet front in 1944. Novogrudok, Poland, before 1941.
Item View![Postwar portrait of Alexander Bielski, a founding member of the Bielski partisan group. [LCID: 12135]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5fd0a120-b916-49f3-a06a-d6b9a32168df.jpg "Postwar portrait of Alexander Bielski, a founding member of the Bielski partisan group. [LCID: 12135]")
Postwar portrait of Alexander Bielski, a founding member of the Bielski partisan group. 1945–48.
Item View![Members of the Bielski partisan group at the site of a mass grave shortly after liberation. [LCID: 60235]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c9afc239-354e-42c2-b25e-5e0856eba4ea.jpg "Members of the Bielski partisan group at the site of a mass grave shortly after liberation. [LCID: 60235]")
Members of the Bielski partisan group at the site of a mass grave shortly after liberation. Poland, 1945.
Item View![Josef Baldo, formerly a Bielski partisan, poses with his young son. [LCID: 60236]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/cd7aeaec-d268-40f6-a623-03965d322460.jpg "Josef Baldo, formerly a Bielski partisan, poses with his young son. [LCID: 60236]")
Josef Baldo, formerly a Bielski partisan, poses with his young son. Foehrenwald, Germany, ca. 1945.
Item View![Postwar portrait of Piotr Kolenda. He was a landowner from Nowogrodek who knew both the Dzienciolski and Bielski families before ... [LCID: 60237]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8c9b9df3-9a4a-4c60-aa98-f80a95082477.jpg "Postwar portrait of Piotr Kolenda. He was a landowner from Nowogrodek who knew both the Dzienciolski and Bielski families before ... [LCID: 60237]")
Postwar portrait of Piotr Kolenda. He was a landowner from Nowogrodek who knew both the Dzienciolski and Bielski families before the war. During the war he helped hide the women before they could safely go to the forest and continued to assist members of the Bielski group while they were in the forest.
Item View![Wedding portrait of former Bielski partisan, Berl Kagan. [LCID: 99532]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e0839e33-f090-4929-bc66-2e45b4b9cc57.jpg "Wedding portrait of former Bielski partisan, Berl Kagan. [LCID: 99532]")
Wedding portrait of former Bielski partisan, Berl Kagan. Emden, Germany, April 3, 1948.
Pictured from left to right are Ita Rubin (the bride), her mother, Sarah Rubin, and Berl Kagan. All three were passengers on the Exodus 1947.
Item View![Group portrait of former Bielski partisans from Nowogrodek taken in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. [LCID: 99534]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3e210feb-60ba-44b1-bafe-f6e1b23f67b0.jpg "Group portrait of former Bielski partisans from Nowogrodek taken in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. [LCID: 99534]")
Group portrait of former Bielski partisans from Nowogrodek taken in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Germany, April 3, 1948.
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![Portrait of Tuvia Bielski after the war. [LCID: 12134]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c81f6da7-b835-402d-9568-b79b8afb8175.jpg "Portrait of Tuvia Bielski after the war. [LCID: 12134]")