Faye Schulman--"Pictures of Resistance"

The Oregon Jewish Museum is featuring pictures and stories about the life of Faye Schulman, one of approximately 20,000 to 30,000 Jewish partisans who escaped Nazi ghettos and concentration camps and valiantly fought the Germans.

On August 14, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto in Poland. They spared only 26 people that day, among them Faye for her photographic abilities. Most of her family died that day.

Faye eventually escaped from her captors and joined the Molotava Brigade, a group of Russian partisans in the forests along the Poland-Russian border. During her time as a partisan, she took over a hundred photographs. She is the only known Jewish partisan photographer and documented the camaraderie, horror, bravery and eventual triumph of the partisans.

In addition to being a photographer, Faye was also a nurse, and, in the picture, she can be seen helping bandage a partisan's wounds.

Additional information about Faye Schulman and additional pictures can be found at

Sometimes it is very difficult for me to believe that the Nazi atrocities occurred only a short time before my birth in 1945.