Faye Schulman: Fought Nazis with a rifle and a camera
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By Sam Roberts
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FAYE SCHULMAN: 1922 - 2021
On August 14, 1942, a year after German troops invaded Soviet-occupied Poland, they massacred the last 1850 Jews from a shtetl named Lenin near the Sluch River. Only 27 were spared, their skills deemed essential by the invaders.
Faye Schulman, a member of the partisan Resistance brigade in eastern Poland who, after her family was executed, fought the Nazis with a rifle and a camera, taking photos of German barbarity and Jews’ determination to fight back.
She joined the Resistance brigade after her family was executed and used her photographs as proof of German barbarity and Jews’ determination to fight back.
Faye Schulman, Holocaust survivor whose photographs documented the partisan resistance, dies at 101
May 28, 2021
(JTA) Faye Schulman, a Holocaust survivor who lost most of her family to the Nazis but joined a group of partisan fighters and documented their work in photographs, died April 24, The Washington Post reported Saturday. She was 101 years old.
Schulman’s photographs often depicted the smiling faces of young partisan fighters, with Schulman at times at the center in a stylish leopard print coat. Michael Berkowitz, a professor of Jewish history at University College London, told the Post that her photos were “extremely important in documenting the history of the resistance.”
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