Faye Schulman, born on this day in 1919, was a Jewish partisan and photographer who took up arms against the Nazis who were responsible for killing her family.
On August 14th, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the “Lenin” ghetto (named after Lenin, Poland, where Faye was from), including her parents, sisters, and younger brother. Faye was spared for her ability to develop photographs, and the Nazis ordered Faye to develop their photographs of the massacre. Later, she cited taking a photo of her dead family in a mass grave as the impetus to take up arms.
During a partisan raid on the camp, Faye fled to the forests and joined the Molotava Brigade, a partisan group mostly comprised of escaped Soviet Red Army POWs. She was accepted because her brother-in-law had been a doctor and they were desperate for anyone who knew anything about medicine. Faye served the group as a nurse from September 1942 to July 1944, even though she had no previous medical experience.
During another raid on the Lenin ghetto, Faye succeeded in recovering her old photographic equipment. During the next two years, she took over a hundred photographs, developing the medium format negatives under blankets and making “sun prints” during the day. While on missions, Faye buried the camera and tripod to keep it safe. Schulman is the only known Jewish partisan photographer from this era.
“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.”
- Faye Schulman
After liberation, Faye married Morris Schulman, also a Jewish partisan. Faye and Morris enjoyed a prosperous life as decorated Soviet partisans, but wanted to leave Pinsk, Poland, which reminded them of “a graveyard.” Morris and Faye lived in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany for the next three years and immigrated to Canada in 1948.
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Not groundbreaking or anything but it really strikes me how heavy handed the propaganda is sometimes. Take nuclear missiles, America literally uses the “our heroic adventurers vs their barbarous invaders” format. American icbms are “Peacekeepers” while similar Russian missiles are referred to as SATAN missiles (a label the West uses, their actual name is Sarmat).
I love the taglines on here LOL
It amazes me that people don’t realize that defending democracy doesn’t end with this battle. If you give up on Ukraine, then next comes Taiwan, South Korea, Poland.
This. Is. An. Investment. In. Democracy
Poland.
i have comrades but i don’t have friends and i want both. and i want lovers. or really, a lover. but clusters of situationships will do, in the meantime. or that’s what i’d say if that didn’t make me feel like a multi-segmented cut up and untrue person juyst built to share fluids. no offense to anyone with a differnt relationship to fucking. im just posting my feelings. i just want you all to know me.
but i also know you cant. even if you can a little.
Me after not having a real meal all day: why do I feel like shit is it because I’m a failure
it feels like i can’t even express the slightest hint of alienation without people in my life being dismissive or shitting on it. like they mention that people that don’t celebrate holidays must be annoyed by all the traffic, and i DARED to express a sympathy because holidays don’t mean much to me outside of obligations to humor family members and i find crowded stores and roads during holidays unpleasant due to sensory overload, and its taken as if i insulted anyone who enjoyed any holiday. any time i express neurodivergence of any kind it is fucking PUNISHED, i guess adult men are not allowed to experience any mental illness or negative feelings whatsoever without being blamed for personal failure to fully repress all of our emotions except bland mundane contentedness
One of my cat’s just cuddled me for like 30 minutes
felt nice probably the most affection I’ve felt in a long while. Ngl this week kinda sucked at least my cats love me.gonna copy paste all that into my journal feel like ther ewas some meaning wrapped up in there
Just saw an ad for Licorice.com, a service that delivers a curated box of licorice to your door. Did someone turn on the free money pump again?
literally every single dish in my house is dirty and piled up in the sink right now. Every single plate, every glass, my pot, my baking sheet, my cutting board… everything.
I’ll get it later.
Upside: had a real short shift at work
Downside: it’s cause my tummy was hurting and working in a hot kitchen full of food smell set my nausea way higher to the point eating a handful of walnuts made it worse so I left and then barfed up what I believe to be xenomorph blood on the walk back home
Thank you Mehmet II for expanding the Ottoman empire a ton so i would get to eat yummy shakshuka today
Ottoman occupation is a small price to pay for getting better food than the rest of Europe. The balkans should be grateful.
It doesn’t matter because no one with actual power to change shit gives a fuck, but every single one of these AI chat bots forced into whatever application you use follows the same exact pattern
- You ask it a question
- it fails to find a relevant answer
- It keeps trying and keeps failing instead of recommending that you send an email to support. Because for some reason it is unable to say “I’m sorry I can’t find that. Do you want to speak to a support rep?”
Tech bro shitstains couldn’t even copy and paste the logic for what happens when you’re trying to make a request with an automated system (realized in what 2005?)
Hoping that billionaires go through with using chatgpt to replace everything because it will work for a day before everything breaks
- finish work
- check news mega
- bad things are happening
This thought just popped into my head: In Undertale, does anyone know if the terms “Pacifist route” and “Genocide route” are official or fan inventions? They’re so universal but I don’t think those words come up anywhere in the game itself.
