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Jewish Partisans in the Forest

Season 1 | 3m 26s

Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these territories to Germans and preserving them for Jews to escape and hide. One of those was the Bielski Brigade, which saved 1200 Jewish lives.

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