Documentary Series: Four Winters
Documentary Series: Four Winters
Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of WWII’s Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Belarus. Against extraordinary odds, they escaped Nazi slaughter, transforming from young innocents to courageous resistance fighters. Shattering the myth of Jewish passivity, these lasting surviving partisans tell their stories of resistance, revealing a stunning narrative of heroism and resilience.
A talkback following the film will include a panel discussion with the child of a partisan Jay Sterns and Ruth Bielski Ehrreich.
About our speaker:
Jay Sterns is the Vice Chairman of the HMCEC’s Board of Directors and serves as a speaker for to school students about his family’s story. His father, Symkha Sterns, was a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Symkha survived in the Mezirich ghetto before escaping and joining a partisan group, where he carried out several sabotage missions against the Nazis.
Ruth Bielski Ehrreich has spoken to thousands of people and is the daughter of Tuvia Bielski, who, with his brothers Asael and Zus, led the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews as the leader of the Bielski otriad during WWII.