Biography and Backround
Tuvia Bielski was born in Belorussia, modern day Western Belarus. He had four other brothers and his family worked as grocers. Tuvia was a courageous and very confident person and he would never take no for an answer. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, they occupied Belorussia and established Jewish ghettos there. Both of Tuvia’s parents died and two of his brothers from the ghettos. Tuvia, and his surviving brothers Asael and Zus Bielski then established a partisan, a Jewish survival group.