 A small group, many of them children and teenagers, escaped from the Podhajce (Pidhaytsi) Ghetto on the eve of its liquidation, and survived the Nazi extermination finding their way to the Bilecki farm.They were hidden in various bunkers near the Bilecki family farm for almost a year until they were liberated by the Russian Army on March 27, 1944.Julian Bilecki was born in 1928, eleven years before the start of WW2.