The Bielski Brothers Part One

Part 2

The Holocaust is always in the news. There’s always something about it. It’s so prevalent that I can get why a less informed person scoffs at the idea of the Holocaust being fake. 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.

While reading about the Bielski partisans on Wikipedia, I ran into an 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. 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 Bielsky 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 of members of the group were engaged in armed operations. So 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.”

The Bielski partisans have also been accused of participating in a Soviet initiated assault on the Polish partisans, and conflicts with the local population which were subjected to robberies and violence. I will cover these topics in part two.

But before I go, 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 more reasons why it is questionable to celebrate the Bielski brothers and their partisan group.