- 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.
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