Faye Schulman, born on this day in 1919, was a Jewish partisan and photographer who took up arms against the Nazis who were responsible for killing her family.
On August 14th, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the "Lenin" ghetto (named after Lenin, Poland, where Faye was from), including her parents, sisters, and younger brother. Faye was spared for her ability to develop photographs, and the Nazis ordered Faye to develop their photographs of the massacre. Later, she cited taking a photo of her dead family in a mass grave as the impetus to take up arms.
During a partisan raid on the camp, Faye fled to the forests and joined the Molotava Brigade, a partisan group mostly comprised of escaped Soviet Red Army POWs. She was accepted because her brother-in-law had been a doctor and they were desperate for anyone who knew anything about medicine. Faye served the group as a nurse from September 1942 to July 1944, even though she had no previous medical experience.
During another raid on the Lenin ghetto, Faye succeeded in recovering her old photographic equipment. During the next two years, she took over a hundred photographs, developing the medium format negatives under blankets and making "sun prints" during the day. While on missions, Faye buried the camera and tripod to keep it safe. Schulman is the only known Jewish partisan photographer from this era.
"I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof."
- Faye Schulman
After liberation, Faye married Morris Schulman, also a Jewish partisan. Faye and Morris enjoyed a prosperous life as decorated Soviet partisans, but wanted to leave Pinsk, Poland, which reminded them of "a graveyard." Morris and Faye lived in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany for the next three years and immigrated to Canada in 1948.
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Watched Gladiator 2 last night on a CAM release
spoiler
Movie sucked; did a Star Wars Sequels thing of 'Somehow, the empire we defeated 16 years ago has returned' and most of the cast was returning from the original in the exact same plot as the first. Just awful. I didn't think Denzell did a great job at all, and his veneers outshined his performance.
My spouse and I had a better time with the subtitles that were generated by AI apparently. It randomly renamed some characters: Gracchus == Crackers, Macronus == Macronuts. And various other translation errors.
I put my foot down on this movie and said 'we're not gonna see another stupid unneeded cash-grab sequel' and glad I did (not pay for it). Beetlejuice 2 was the last one we saw and it was also awful (and we paid for it)
What emperor? The roman one? Cause I think you will find that did last at least 16 years longer than Commodus
yeah but its like the exact same situation as the first one. very poorly written