OBITUARIES
OF BLESSED MEMORY

52 | MAY 13 • 2021 

F

aye Schulman, a 
Holocaust survivor who 
lost most of her family to 
the Nazis but joined a group of 
partisan fighters and document-
ed their work in photographs, 
died April 24, the Washington 
Post reported Saturday.
She was 101 years old.
Schulman’s photographs often 
depicted the smiling faces of 
young partisan fighters, with 
Schulman at times at the center 
in a stylish leopard print coat. 
Michael Berkowitz, a professor 
of Jewish history at University 
College London, told the Post 

that her photos were “extremely 
important in documenting the 
history of the resistance.
”
Schulman was born in Lenin, 
Poland, a town that bordered 
the Soviet Union. Her family 
was killed in 1942 when the 
Nazis liquidated the ghetto 
there, marching most of the 
town’s Jews to trenches outside 
the town and shooting them. 
Schulman was saved due to her 
occupation — she was put to 
work photographing Nazi offi-
cials and developing prints for 
records.
She joined the partisans after 

escaping to the forests and 
became a nurse to wounded 
partisan soldiers. She developed 
her photographs by night.
She was liberated by Soviet 
troops in 1944 and later that 
year married a fellow Jewish 
member of the partisans, 
Morris Schulman. They lived 

in a German displaced persons 
camp after the war until mov-
ing to Canada in 1948, where 
Schulman lived until her death.
In 1995, Schulman published 
a book, A Partisan’s Memoir: 
Woman of the Holocaust, that 
included many of her photo-
graphs. 

Holocaust Survivor Whose 
Photographs Documented 
the Partisan Resistance 
Dies At 101

Faye Schulman lights a candle at a ceremony commemorating the 
70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at a UJA Federation 
building in Toronto in 2013.

VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES

SHIRA HANAU JTA

