On this day in 1919, Jewish Partisan photographer Faye Schulman, who was the only person to document the resistance fighters in Eastern Europe, was born in what’s now Lenin, Belarus. Born and raised in an Orthodox household as Faigel Lazebnik, Schulman began apprenticing at the age of 10 for her brother Moishe, a local photographer in Eastern Poland. Nazis invaded in June 1941, forcing Schulman’s family into the Lenin Ghetto. German forces murdered some 1,850 Jews on August 14, 1942, causing Schulman to lose most of her family. She and 26 other Jews managed to survive as a photographer for the Germans. Afterwards, she worked for the Nazis as a photographer, until she found herself developing a photograph of her dead family members in a mass grave. From then on, she was determined to fight the Nazis in all forms and joined the resistance. From September 1942 to July 1944, Schulman served as a nurse, aiding Soviet prisoners-of-war (POWs) in the Molotov Brigade. Following a raid on the city of Lenin, in Moscow, Schulman was able to retrieve her photography equipment and document the efforts of the resistance. Following the Red Army’s liberation of Belarus in July 1944, Schulman discovered that two of her brothers had survived the war, and she left the Molotov Brigade upon meeting her eventual husband, Morris Schulman. After the war, the two of them remained in Germany’s Landsberg displaced persons camp where both Morris and Faye facilitated the secret transport of weapons to support the effort for Israel’s independence. Faye’s strong Jewish identity forced her to outwork the gentile Soviet women in her brigade. When told that her behavior was more Russian than Jewish she would always reply, “Yes, but I am Jewish. My work as a nurse, a photographer, and most of all as a soldier was plentiful reason for me to stand tall, to be proud of myself and my heritage.”