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.
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SHIRA HANAU JTA