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).
Under their protection, 1,213 Jews survived the war, making it one of the most successful rescue missions of the Holocaust. The group spent more than two years living in the forests and was initially organized by members of the Bielski family.
