An Evening with Zvi Bielski, October 27, 2009
On October 27, 2009, Chabad@USC sponsored an evening with Zvi Bielski, son of the late Zus Bielski who, along with his brothers, led the largest Jewish resistance and rescue effort during World War II. Zvi spoke with students about the true events behind the 2008 film Defiance, which told the story of the Partisans and how they came to rescue more than 1,200 Jewish people by escaping to the deep forest in German-occupied Poland (now Belarus). The USC Shoah Foundation Institute archive is rich with the firsthand stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, includ