DEFIANCE EVENT:
The Movie Comes Alive
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 @ 7PM
Click here to view video interviews and to read about Mrs. Leah Johnson
www.lidamemorialsociety.org/aboutus.html
Leah Johnson (aka Leah Bedzowski) was only 18 when the Nazis invaded Lida, forcing the town’s Jews into a ghetto. Leah and her family escaped with the help of a guide sent by Tuvia Bielski and joined the Bielski brigade in the Naliboki forest, where they survived until the end of the war – and where Leah met her husband Velvel “Wolf” Yanson (bottom middle of above picture).