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Defiance - timeline
Friday 20th June: Operation Barbarossa, in which German troops invade the Soviet Union. The town of Nowogrodek becomes a Jewish ghetto. (Belarussia)
August: The Bielski brothers go on the run after the murder of their parents. (Belarussia)
October: More Jews arrive in the forest and seek aid from the Bielski brothers. (Belarussia)
December: Asael Bielski marries Chaya Dziencielsky, and the food runs out in the forest. (Belarussia)
April: The forest in which the Bielski brothers hide hundreds of Jewish escapees becomes surrounded by Nazi soldiers. (Belarussia)
Tuvia Bielski dies. (Manhattan)