bielski Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/bielski/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:28:50 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.jwire.com.au/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Jwirelogocleangoog.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 bielski Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/bielski/ 32 32 6446428 A conversation with Aron Bielski, last of the Bielski brothers https://www.jwire.com.au/a-conversation-with-aron-bielski-last-of-the-bielski-brothers/ https://www.jwire.com.au/a-conversation-with-aron-bielski-last-of-the-bielski-brothers/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:53:13 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=111472 Jackson Richman: His message to a world struggling through a pandemic ahead of remembrance of Yom Hashoah: “We’re all human. Love and be nice to everybody.”

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/a-conversation-with-aron-bielski-last-of-the-bielski-brothers/feed/ 0 111472 The Bielski Partisans:     fighting back: a ‘forestJerusalem’ story https://www.jwire.com.au/the-bielski-partisans-fighting-back-a-forestjerusalem-story/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-bielski-partisans-fighting-back-a-forestjerusalem-story/#respond Mon, 18 Mar 2019 04:40:22 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=96192 Novogrudok is a small city in Western Belarus (formerly Byelorussia).  A country of rolling hills with thousands of streams and lakes, over 40% of its territory is dense primeval forest where wolves, bears, wild boars, and bison roam.  Once the hunting grounds of Russian and European aristocracy, it was also important and well-known centre of Jews who lived there since the 15thcentury.

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