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World Jewish News
Poles Indignant With Movie About Jewish Partisans
06.03.2009
The "Defiance" movie, directed by Edward Zwick and recently released in Poland, triggered a wave of anger in Poland, reports Video.ru with reference to The Guardian . The right-wing citizens were outraged at the heroic depiction of the four brothers Bielski, who fled from the Nazi-occupied Polish territory and organized a partisan detachment in the forests of Belarus.
Many Poles believe that this detachment was involved in the attack by the group of Soviet partisans on the village of Naliboki in which 128 people were killed. Historians have repeatedly denied these allegations, but their arguments have had little impact on public opinion.
As mentioned in the Polish newspapers, the Jewish resistance groups did not hesitate to use any means when they came to the villages for provisions. "Very often, these visits were accompanied by murders and rapes," reads one of the articles.
The elder brother, Tuvia, commander of the detachment, is called in the press either "a mixture of a bandit and a hero," or a drunkard and philanderer. His role in the movie was performed by the well-known British actor Daniel Craig.
The plot of the "Defiance" movie is based on the book by the Holocaust researcher Nechama Tec - a Jew who survived in Poland during the war by posing as a Catholic.
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