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2022-10-23 Europe

A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance During World War II

[American Thinker] When the Nazis were gunning down Jews of the Eastern Polish town of Lenin into trenches, an officer pulled 17-year-old Faye Schulman (then called Faigel Lazebnik) aside. He’d seen her working at a studio earlier. So, he ordered her to take vanity pictures of him and other Nazis; he also told her to develop the negatives of the photos the Nazis had taken of the massacre. Almost 2,000 Jews were shot dead in Lenin. Several others were beaten, stripped naked, and sent to "work" camps in boxcars. Despite being terrified, the teenager secretly made extra copies of the photos to document the war crimes for future testimony.

Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WW2, a documentary film written, produced, and directed by Julia Mintz, presents Schulman’s story, along with that of seven other teenaged fighters like her who lived in the forests of Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine, waging guerrilla warfare against the Nazis. It took Mintz over a decade to track down these fighters — in their 80s and 90s — for interviews and gather photographs and film footage.

Camera in hand, she later escaped to the forests and joined a group of Russian resistance fighters to avenge the death of her parents and six brothers and sisters. The group made her the resident "nurse", hoping she may have picked up some skills from a brother-in-law who was a doctor. She assisted the group’s ’doctor,’ actually a veterinarian. They’d dress wounds with cloth sterilized by boiling. But she was also an unemotional fighter who learned to use a rifle and stalk the forests in her leopard-fur coat. During a raid for food and weapons, she urged fellow fighters to burn her childhood home so that the Nazis wouldn’t be able to use it.

Her focus, though, remained on building evidence. She was so resolute about documenting Nazi atrocities and the partisans’ activities that she learned to develop photographs under a blanket. "I want people to know there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter," Schulman, who died last year in Toronto, aged 101, would say. Her more than 100 photographs of the massacre and her partisan years — and her life itself — are proof of that.

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-23 06:27|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "I want people to know there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter,"

Contrary to the common stereotype, Warrior Israel did not spring fully formed from nothing in 1948, like Athena from the brow of Zeus.

Nor was it just Partisans in the woods of Eastern Europe during the war. While seeking the story of the Jewish union workers who beat bloody the fascists who intended to rampage through their London neighbourhood, I came across this happy post-war tale:

The British Jews who fought postwar fascism on London's streets
Harry Kaufman and Jules Konopinski, two of the last surviving members of the 43 Group.

Thank you, Besoeker.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-23 12:15|| 2022-10-23 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Call me when the majority of them do not vote "progressive" anymore.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-23 12:22|| 2022-10-23 12:22|| Front Page Top

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