The Bielski Brothers

The Holocaust is always in the news. It’s so prevalent that I can get why a the average person scoffs at the idea of the Holocaust narrative being untrue. How could something that’s always being talked about be fake?

CBS 12 News, West Palm Beach, thought it would be a good idea to run a piece on Aron Bielski, aka Aron Bell, aka Arczyk Bielski. Apparently Bielski’s WW2 survival story helps combat anti-Semitism.

What doesn’t help combat anti-Semitism, which basically means saying anything bad about Jews, is the fact that in 2007 Bielski and his wife (pictured above) allegedly stole another Jewish WW2 survivor’s life savings after abandoning her in a Polish nursing home. I guess CBS 12 figured that it has been long enough since that happened so it’s safe to run puff pieces on Bielski again.

Aron Bielski is celebrated because he and his brothers created a notable resistance organization against the Germans called the Bielski partisans group. Aron is the last living Bielski brother, and Holocaust fabulists are going to milk him for all he’s worth. In a world where the Holocaust industry didn’t have all the power and the press, promoting Bielski would be a bad idea considering the controversy surrounding the Bielski partisans. However, the Holocaust industry does have the power to control the narrative.

While reading about the Bielski partisans on Wikipedia, I ran into this interesting tidbit:

The Bielski partisans spent more than two years living in the forest. By the end of the war they numbered as many as 1,236 members, most of whom were non-combatants, including children and the elderly. The Bielski partisans are seen by many Jews as heroes for having led as many refugees as they did away from the perils of war and the Holocaust.^[1] However, as their relations with the non-Jewish population were strained and occasionally violent, their wartime record has been the subject of some controversy in Poland.^[2] (My emphasis added.)

I wonder what this “strained and occasionally violent” relations were exactly. The Wikipedia article doesn’t say much about this and the Holocaust industry would rather you not do any reading about the Bielski brothers and just watch Hollywood movies about them instead. They want you to believe that anyone fighting Nazis is good despite what their other actions might have been.

Even Holocaust fabulists can’t always get what they want and there is pushback in the glorifying of the Bielski brothers. One charge against the Bielski partisans is that they were present at the Naliboki massacre where 128 Polish people, including women and children, were murdered on May 8th, 1943.

Of course Wikipedia denounces that all claims of Jewish involvement and calls them unsubstantiated. Their Naliboki massacre article states:

The IPN [Institute of National Remembrance] investigation recorded multiple witnesses supporting the presence of Jewish combatants, especially, the Bielski partisans, during the massacre; however, IPN did not find any documentary evidence to support such accusations.^[17][2] Archival records rejected the presence of Bielski’s unit in the area; they would move to the vicinity of Naliboki months later, in July 1943.^[19][20] In conclusion, the IPN held the massacre to have been carried out by partisans from the “Stalin” brigade, accompanied by those from the “Dzerzhinsky”, “Bolshevik”, and “Suvorov” units.^[2]

It’s funny how witness testimony alone is good enough for Holocaust claims, but not for claims made against Jews. If we were to go by Holocaust fabulist standards, the Bielski partisans definitely took part in the Naliboki massacre because witnesses said so. The matter of the Bielski involvement comes down to Polish nationalist vs. Holocaust establishment claims, and I have every reason to distrust Holocaust establishment claims. Given my limited resources, I cannot say with authority who is correct. However, after reading pages 2–11 of this document that presents the Polish nationalist side of the story, I am of the opinion that the Bielski group mostly likely took part in the Naliboki massacre. If you don’t want to take my word for it, I suggest you do the reading and decide for yourself.

If you don’t do any further reading, take note that the Bielski partisans had over 1,200 members at its peak, 70% of them women, children, and elderly. 150 members of the group were engaged in armed operations. Just because the majority of the group might have been in one place there is no reason that detachments couldn’t have been in a completely different location. One of the Jewish partisans said in The Bielski Brothers documentary, “The biggest problem was … feeding so many people. Groups of 10 to 12 partisans used to go out for a march of 80 to 90 kilometres, rob the villages, and bring food to the partisans.”

Right there you have admission that the partisans were participating in illegal actives.

To wrap up part one I would like to point out one more thing from the CBS 12 article:

His wife, Henryka, also a holocaust survivor, spoke for both of them at Chabad of West Boca Raton Thursday night. This discussion centered on why it’s important for these young adults to learn about the horrors of the holocaust, and what to do if they experience discrimination or hate.

“Be good. Love everybody in the world. Doesn’t matter the color, who you are or the other person is, you have to be respectful and learn to live with others, that is his message,” Henryka Bell said.

Apparently it does matter to Bielsky if the person is Polish, or an old woman with a hefty life savings…

Continue to part two where I examine Soviet-initiated assault on the Polish partisans and conflicts with the local populations.

PART TWO

As you can see from this side-by-side comparison, the actor chosen to play for Tuvia Bielski, Aron Bielski’s brother, in the 2008 film Defiance was a real doppelganger! I’m never going to watch this movie, so I’m just going to assume that the historical accuracy is as good as the casting accuracy.

Okay, that’s enough fun and games. In part one, I said I would talk about Soviet-initiated assault on the Polish partisans and conflicts with the local population who were subjected to robberies and violence, so let’s get to it.

Before we get to that, let’s look at something that isn’t disputed. From Wikipedia:

According to Kazimierz Krajewski, in May 1944, the village of Kamień in Stolpce was attacked by a force including Bielski partisans; 23 Home Army soldiers and 20 civilians were killed.^[2]

Right there we have the admission that the Bielski partisans murdered civilians. This is an obvious criminal act, but because the Bielski partisans were one) fighting Nazis, and two) Jewish, they get a pass, and films glorify their actions with good-looking actors to play them.

There is also no disputing that the Bielski partisans attacked “Polish fighters.” Again from Wikipedia:

Fighting on the Soviet side, the Bielski partisans took part in clashes between Polish and Soviet forces.^[27] On 5 March 1944, Zus’s fighter detachment and Soviet forces jointly attacked a group of Polish fighters, killing 47 and injuring 20 more.

Who were these “Polish fighters”? The Polish Home Army and other underground partisans. Were these Poles on the side of the Nazis? No, they were fighting the Nazis. The Bielski Jews took part in some of the over 100 documented clashes between Polish and Soviet forces—fighting on the Soviet side. Why would the the Soviets and Bielski partisans do this? Allow my robot assistant, Sarah (Bing AI), to explain:

The Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II¹. As the Soviet troops advanced into Poland, they arrested and disarmed units of the Home Army, which revealed themselves during Operation Tempest².

The Home Army’s allegiance to the Polish government-in-exile caused the Soviet government to consider the Home Army to be an impediment to the introduction of a communist-friendly government in Poland¹. This hindered cooperation and in some cases led to outright conflict¹.

After the Red Army had cleared most Polish territory of German forces, the Home Army was disbanded on 19 January 1945¹. After the war, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, communist government propaganda portrayed the Home Army as an oppressive and reactionary force¹. Thousands of ex-Home Army personnel were deported to gulags and Soviet prisons, while other ex-members, including a number of senior commanders, were executed¹.

This liquidation of the Polish Home Army by the Soviets was part of a larger strategy to establish control over Poland and ensure the implementation of a communist government. It’s a tragic chapter in the history of World War II.

With allies like the Soviets, who needs enemies?

In fact, the Bielski partisans didn’t actually fight Nazis all that much! I’ve only come across one claim about them killing Nazis, which was that they killed 12 German soldiers in March of 1944. Tuvia Bielski himself cautioned to his group repeatedly: “Don’t rush to fight and die. So few of us are left, we have to save lives. To save a Jew is much more important than to kill Germans” (source page 18). Contrary to what the Holocaust Encyclopedia entry below says, the Bielski partisans were mostly about saving themselves and helping the Soviets kill Poles.

I’d also like to remind everybody that the Nazi orders to combat partisans is considered (by the Allies) to be criminal. It’s almost like if you’re the loser of a war everything you did was evil, but if you’re the winner everything you did was justified and righteous because you were the good guys. And we can be assured that the Allies were the good guys because they won the war and can tell us that they are the good guys.

When it comes to charges of the Bielski partisans raiding villages for supplies, both Bielski fans and critics are in agreement that this happened. In an article from New American, the author, who happens to be Eric Bell (aka Bielski), sticks this bit of information at the end of a paragraph, stating, “(…) If these necessities could not be purchased, armed partisans raided villages for their needs.” Bell didn’t really dwell on this topic. He didn’t really want you to think about how the area they were in was one of the poorest areas in all of Europe and the villagers were struggling just to survive. He didn’t want you to think of the violence involved in looting these villages and the devastation it caused for the already struggling residents.

No, don’t think of any of that. When you hear Bielski brothers you need to only think of this handsome gentile actor.

Now think back to that CBS12 article from part one. Do you think knowing more about the Bielski partisans would help combat anti-Semitism? Probably not. So what kind of “education” about Aron Bielski would help combat anti-Semitism? I’ll leave that up to you to work out.