Nazis murdered her family, but she survived because she could use a camera | The Photographer
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Published 2022-04-05
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"She dedicated her life to telling the stories because she wanted people to know the Jews fought."
— Michael Tward in The Photographer
Faye Schulman was one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers of the Second World War, and in The Photographer, her grandson, Michael Tward, tells the story of her life.
Most of Schulman’s family was murdered by the Nazis, and her two older brothers were shipped to a labour camp. But Schulman was spared because she knew how to operate a camera. The Nazis were obsessed with keeping records, and she became one of their photographers.
When a group of Russian partisans came to her town, Schulman escaped with them. She spent two years living in the woods, burying her equipment and photographs to keep them safe. The partisans used guerrilla warfare to disrupt communications, transportation and the flow of munitions to the front lines, and Schulman often took photos of their fight.
Today, those photos provide a rare a look into her life as a partisan and everlasting evidence of the Jewish resistance against the Nazis.
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