The Little-Known Tale of the Jews Who Tunneled Out of a Ghetto to Fight against the Nazis

On September 26, 1943—three days before Rosh Hashanah—a group of 232 Jews used a tunnel they had built themselves to sneak out of a Nazi ghetto to the comparative safety of the nearby forests. The escape from the Polish town of Nowogródek (known as Navaredok in Yiddish and currently in Belarus) was organized by the Bielski brothers, a team of Jewish partisan leaders whose exploits were made famous by the film Defiance. Yehuda Geberer tells this remarkable story, and places it in the context of other Jewish rescue efforts during the Holocaust. (Audio, 43 minutes.)