maryland_fotos
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/europe/faye-schulman-dead.html
This Jewish woman was spared by the Nazis because she was deemed an essential worker - a photographer who could take commemorative photos of them. She later joined the resistance in what's now Belarus.
A very brave woman, who after the war used her photographs to talk about the resistance in Eastern Europe.
This is behind a paywall, so I will post just a couple of snippets:
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She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
When the guerrillas raided Lenin, she recovered her camera and darkroom equipment and began chronicling the Resistance. Developing film at night or under a blanket, she captured intimate views of the partisan underground, including a poignant moratorium on anti-Semitism during a joint funeral of Jewish and Russian partisans. She recorded joyous reunions of partisans who were surprised to discover that their friends and neighbors were still alive.
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The article includes a photo of her resistance days aiming a rifle in Poland, and another one decades later, posing with the Compur bellows camera she used during the war. She lived in Canada and died recently at the age of 101.
This Jewish woman was spared by the Nazis because she was deemed an essential worker - a photographer who could take commemorative photos of them. She later joined the resistance in what's now Belarus.
A very brave woman, who after the war used her photographs to talk about the resistance in Eastern Europe.
This is behind a paywall, so I will post just a couple of snippets:
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She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
When the guerrillas raided Lenin, she recovered her camera and darkroom equipment and began chronicling the Resistance. Developing film at night or under a blanket, she captured intimate views of the partisan underground, including a poignant moratorium on anti-Semitism during a joint funeral of Jewish and Russian partisans. She recorded joyous reunions of partisans who were surprised to discover that their friends and neighbors were still alive.
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The article includes a photo of her resistance days aiming a rifle in Poland, and another one decades later, posing with the Compur bellows camera she used during the war. She lived in Canada and died recently at the age of 101.
DwF
Well-known
Very nice obit/article and story, thank you for sharing here!
David
David
Bill Clark
Veteran
Thank you for the link.
She went thru hell but came out as a wonderful human being.
My uncle fought in WWII. We shared experiences after I came back from Vietnam. Tough times.
She went thru hell but came out as a wonderful human being.
My uncle fought in WWII. We shared experiences after I came back from Vietnam. Tough times.
charjohncarter
Veteran
Brave woman, here is another story not behind a wall:
https://www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans/faye-schulman
and Google images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=fay...XV7Z4KHeqRAjUQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=881
https://www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans/faye-schulman
and Google images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=fay...XV7Z4KHeqRAjUQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=881
kshapero
South Florida Man
Boy don't we have it easy. Hope we can appreciate the freedoms we have and preserve them.