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Defiance

After watching the movie please identify (using full sentences) what type of citizen are the following characters. Are they a:

Resistor
(Gandhi)

Perpetrator (the B**** of Buchenwald) Bystander (Martin Nemoller)


Provide proof of this in sentence form
Bernicki (the Police Captain who kills Bielskis parents)

Kissely (the milk man)

Tuvia (the main character)

2. Why did Tuvia shoot Arkady? Why was it nessesary?

3. Explain how Tuvia kept the people together. How did he lead these people. Why was it a shock to everyone? What does this tell you about heroes?

4.

Why were the Russians suspicious and judgemental of the Jewish Partisans?

5. What is a forest wife or forest husband? Why did these relationships exist?

6. Take this home and research the real Bieleski brothers. Relate one aspect that the movie failed to mention or omitted.

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