The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.

As the Second World War and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25,000 Jews, entire families in some instances, walked out of the forests of Eastern Europe. For three years, these men, women, and children had miraculously survived, eluding Nazi hunts and Soviet, Polish, and Ukrainian partisans who often killed first and asked questions later. They had escaped from the Nazi ghettos and slave labor caps and formed secret partisan camps in the surrounding forests The forest not only protected them, it also became their base for sabotage and resistance efforts against the Germans and their allies. Based on numerous interviews with the survivors themselves, Fugitives of the Forest tells their harrowing and heroic stories--including that of Tuvia Bielski and his rescue of more than 1,200 Hews from a certain death, the subject of the major motion picture Defiance.