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.
Operating in the forests of Eastern Europe, she wielded a camera along with her gun, documenting the partisan cause in riveting historical photographs.
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