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Group portrait of members of the Kalinin Jewish partisan unit (Bielski group) on guard duty at an airstrip in the Naliboki Forest. 1941-1944.
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.
Portrait of Tuvia Bielski after the war.
Postwar portrait of Alexander Bielski, a founding member of the Bielski partisan group. 1945–48.
Members of the Bielski partisan group at the site of a mass grave shortly after liberation. Poland, 1945.
Josef Baldo, formerly a Bielski partisan, poses with his young son. Foehrenwald, Germany, ca. 1945.
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.
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.
Group portrait of former Bielski partisans from Nowogrodek taken in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Germany, April 3, 1948.
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