The Bielski Partisans: fighting back: a ‘forestJerusalem’ story
March 18, 2019 by Tamara Vershitskaya and Leslie Bell
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. Read more
