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Defiance: how Jews resisted in WWII

Defiance, a film that tells the story of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II, is released this week. Author and historian Nechama Tec describes the life of Tuvia Bielski, who set up a community in a forest in western Belorussia which smuggled fellow Jews out of the heavily armed ghettos.

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