【From Wikipedia】
The Bielski partisans was an organisation 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 partisan movement.
Under their protection, 1,236 Jews survived the war, making it one of many remarkable rescue missions in the Holocaust. The group spent more than two years living in the forests and was initially organised by members of the Bielski family.
在一個戰爭不斷、飢寒交迫的年代裏，最能看出人性最真實的一面。在善與惡、對與錯中不斷地游移，一塊小小的麵包就能輕易地引發這種內心的衝突，當肉體與心靈軟弱的時候，挑戰的是我們一直以來在和平生活中所堅定的信念。
的確，沒有經歷過戰爭和逃難的人，是無法了解那種在尊嚴與生存中的困惑與爭扎。在那個情況之下，求溫飽、求生存，可能是唯一活下去的目的。人生彷彿是部黑白影片，只有生與死二種選擇，單純到讓你窒息。不會再有像今天充斥在我們每一天生活當中的各種形形色色、花花綠綠的選擇。
這部片令人感動的原因，單純是因為導演把這事蹟拍得寫實和平凡，偉大往往就是那麼不起眼地存在我們週遭的生活之中。偉大往往就存在那些自身不飽足卻又願意把他僅有地奉獻給他人的人，問問自己，我們在這亂七八糟的世界裏，所追求地所持有的信念又是什麼?
If you save a life, you must take the responsibility for it.
We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals
Nothing is impossible. What we have done is impossible.
Tuvia和Zus於二戰結束後，移居紐約，以開計程車、卡車過著像一般人一樣的日子，分別於1987及1995年辭世。
