My visit to the Naliboki Forest in Belarus on 16 May 2018, with Tamara, Alexander and Ivan.
This is where the Bielskis and many other partisans had their camps in the latter part of WWII. Aptly named Forest Jerusalem.
Please watch the nine videos of Tamara telling us more.
The road into the forest.
Naliboki forest
Naliboki forest – Wikipedia
Naliboki Forest (Belarusian: Налібоцкая пушча, Nalibotskaya Pushcha (pushcha: wild forest, primeval forest)) is a large forest complex in the northwestern Belarus, on the right bank of the Neman River, on the Belarusian Ridge.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_forest
Alexander and Ivan walking towards the partisan camp.
Oak Tree Remembers
Oak Tree Remembers
Tamara Vershitskaya in the Naliboki Forest
Source: youtu.be/oaL75ktaeVs
Tunnel Escape in Novogrudok
Tunnel Escape
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/wt1odw9pU9c
A metal bucket
Proof of Bielski Camp
Proof of Bielski Camp
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/HQ8HCRYDVJM
Partisans in the Naliboki Forest
Partisans in the Naliboki Forest
Tamara Vershitskaya talks about the Naliboki Forest and the Bielskis
Source: youtu.be/q6u8qcKO7Cg
Amount of People
Amount of People
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/5C_M-kNrJiA
Women and children
Women and children
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/OKc_wMsKxwE
Attack on the camp
Attack on the camp
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/bOKtffhGIkk
Naliboki Forest Jerusalem- Information
Naliboki Forest Jerusalem
Tamara Vershitskaya talks about Naliboki Forest and Bielskis with Alexander Pilinkievich
Source: youtu.be/Uc6O0YJUyfc
Ivan preparing our picnic lunch near the fire ranger
A VERY treif lunch – I had the herring!
Beekeepers
Trees for sale
Amnesia’s Antidote by Ariel and Ryan Luckey
Amnesia’s Antidote by Ariel and Ryan Luckey
www.arielluckey.com www.comuntierra.org In May 2013, the Luckey Brothers journeyed to their great-great-grandfather’s childhood village Lubca in rural Belaru…
Source: youtu.be/XPCGtmxd2Hk
Zog Nit Keynmol – The Partisans’ Song
Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: elirab.me/zog-nit-keynmol/
Bielski partisans
Bielski partisans – Wikipedia
The Bielski partisans were an organization of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought against the Nazi German occupiers and their collaborators in the vicinity of Nowogródek (Navahrudak) and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus). They are named after the Bielskis, a family of Polish Jews who led the organization.