“Eighty four years ago, after the sun set, my grandmother took out her camera before lighting the candles of Chag Chanuka and took a picture of her Chanukia facing a Nazi flag. I have the original picture and menorah. On the back of this picture my grandmother wrote in German, “Judea will live forever, thus respond the lights.” I have donated the menorah to Yad Vashem under one condition; Yad Vashem will only have it for 51 weeks in the year. Every year, during the week of Chanuka, I take the menorah that is in this box and re-light my grandmother’s Chanukia.“ Beezrat Hashem the light of this Chanuka will be lit for all the years to come. Chag Chanuka Sameach!
Uncredited Photographer Jewish Partisans Near Pinsk, Belorussia, USSR c.1944
The girl in the leopard print
That’s Faye Schulman! She’s known for her work photographing the Jewish resistance movement in eastern Europe – and, of course, her fabulous coat. As of July ‘17, she’s still alive! Check these out:
“Jewish people didn’t go like sheep to the slaughter … I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.”
She’s also written a memoir. I think theres a book collecting photos of hers as well? But I think it’s harder to get hold of.
She frequently had to hide that she was Jewish from other partisans she worked with out of fear of what they might do (there’s a story about her only eating potatoes during Passover and just never explaining why).
She could only take a small number of the negatives she had to the displaced person camp she was in after the end of the war and had to abandon the rest.
i’ve said this before, but the relationship of disabled or LGBT non-romani gentiles to the Holocaust is “I might have been affected by the Holocaust had i been there at the time.” the relationship of Jewish people to the Holocaust is “I am affected by the Holocaust.”
fearlessstateofmind backup 