Mongolian soldiers moving during the battle of Khalkhin Gol, 1939.


Mongolian soldiers

Tuvia Bielski, overall leader of the Bielski brothers' Jewish partisan band, in uniform, from his period in the Polish Army, 1927-'29.  Tuvia and his brothers would later lead a large Jewish partisan band in eastern Poland/western occupied Soviet Union, 1940-'44.  Unlike Soviet-controlled partisan formations, the prime objective of the Bielskis was to rescue Jews in danger of elimination by the Germans and, of course, to survive themselves.  Certainly, quite a number of Jews - and some Gentiles - owed their lives to the activities of the Bielskis, although these were not always appreciated by their Soviet partisan co-combattants or by the Soviet authorities.

Some fought back ...

Escolta de S.E. el Generalísimo - Escuadrón de Caballería Mora