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- Birth nameFaigel Lazebnik
- Faye Shulman was born on November 28, 1919 in Lenin, Poland (Lenin, Belarus). Faye was married to Morris Schulman. Faye died on April 24, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- SpouseMorris Schulman(? - 1992) (his death, 2 children)
- She was an armed resistance fighter in the forests of Eastern Europe during WWII. She joined a group of Soviet partisans in 1942 after the Nazis killed 1,850 Jewish people in her hometown in eastern Poland. She took many photos of the resistance fighters and their daily lives.
- Both of her parents and four of her six siblings died in the Holocaust. The Nazis spared her because of her camera skills; they put her to work photographing German officials and developing prints for record-keeping.
- 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.
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