Workshop “The Bielski Brothers”

The Jewish partisan brigade around Tuvia Bielski in (todays) Belarus

Age group: 14 years – … (adaptable, also for adults)

Working materials (inter alia):

• Extracts from the memoirs of the partisan commander Tuvia Bielski, the female partisan Sulia Volozhinski-Rubin and Jack Kagan, who joined the Bielskis as a young boy (three witnesses of different age, sex and social hierarchy)
• Video-Interviews with the partisan commander Tuvia Bielski and his younger brother Aron Bielski
• Excerpts from the movie Defiance (2008) by Edward Zwick
• Extracts from the book Defiance (1993) by Nechama Tech, professor emerita of sociology of the University of Connecticut, Stamford (US) on whose book Edward Zwick’s movie Defiance is based
• historic photos – current photos from Belarus (historical locations; memorial sites)
• the metaphors of the TREE
• photos of students’ artworks created in previous workshops