Faye Lazebnik Schulman: Pictures of Resistance
“A partisan came in and said, ‘What do you think?’ And I said to myself, ‘My family was murdered. I am in the partisans. I’m alone. I won’t be living here anymore. The Nazis occupied my father’s house that he built himself.’ And I said to the partisan, ‘Burn it!”
photographs:
1. Burial of partisans in forests near Pinsk, 1944. Formal burials of partisans were rare. Faye took this photograph to show the first time her detachment’s casualties were buried in caskets…. “These are two Jews and two gentiles, all four buried in one grave together…. They fought together against the same enemy, so they are buried together.”
2. Shish Detachment Field Operating Table, forests around Pinsk, 1943
3. Partisans in the Forest, forest near Lenin, 1943
4. Faye with Old Friends, forest near Lenin, Winter, 1944 “These boys escaped the Nazi-occupied half of Poland and came to Lenin in 1939, when we first met…. I was happy to meet three Jewish boys together. In my brigade, I couldn’t even say I was Jewish…. So, when I saw boys I knew, I was very happy not to hide anything.”
5. Partisans standing in front of the ashes of the former Lazebnik family home, Lenin, Poland (now Belarus), mid 1943. The graves of German soldiers are in the foreground.
6. Faye practicing her aim, end of winter 1943, Pinsk. “This photo is really part of my history as a partisan. This is my ‘new’ automatic rifle…. I really had to practice how to shoot this one.”
7. Faye Schulman and Soviet partisans in the forest.
8. Faye Schulman and fellow armed partisans.
9. August 14, 1942 – The massacred Jewish community of Lenin, Poland. Including Faye’s parents and siblings.
10. Faye with her detachment. Forests near Lenin, Fall, 1942. Faye is lying down in the front row, second to last.
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Tag: holocaust
You cannot say that you like Pocahontas. The genocide of my people is turned into a cartoon musical with a singing raccoon? I mean, think about it, dawg, the real story of Pocahontas is about a bunch of white boys who come to my land, bribe the corrupt indian chief, kill off all the warriors and fuck the indian princess silly.
does this have a source?
It’s from an HBO miniseries about the Iraq War called Generation Kill
the night porter, the black parade, the boy in the striped pajamas is the same premise but not romance…so yes they absolutely would.
using other people…using the genocide of other people, as a retorical device is kind of a shitty thing to do anyway. But also the whole ‘you wouldn’t do this to [other opressed group]’ tends to weaken your position cause well…you’re usually wrong and they would and you’re giving them too much credit to think they wouldn’t. Which is a shame when your basic position is good like here.
mind you…on this particular issue saying this while you’re invading someone elses country also weakens your position.
(while we’re at it we can stop pretending that the shoah wasn’t racialised violence just like all previous genocides and persecutions of jewish people and the ones that continue today. Wherever you stand on whether (light skinned) jews are white today -and if you aren’t jewish you can stay the fuck out of that one- there were no white jews in the third reich)
“ILLNESS” OHHH MY FUFESDHHHC
Iirc Anne Frank died of an illness in the concentration camp??
To quote Wiki (which is truly not the most reliable source) “[Margot and Anne] died of typhus in March 1945.”
You know the response “well your not wrong”? I think that’s the thing that applys here
She did die of an illness, technically. but to leave it at that or pretend that was the cause of her death just…doesn’t work, it doesn’t grasp the situation at all. It’s technically correct but its not accurate
it implys that the nazi regeim, hiding in an attack under constant threat and being put in a concentration camp were incidental in her death…when really the thing that’s incidental is that in the end a illness is the thing that killed her.
would she be more heroic if she’d have held out long enough to be put in a gas chamber instead? would that death be less disapointing? She only avoided that fate because she got an illness first (in a concentration camp which are designed to breed illness, cause why waste bullets and gas if you can just stick people in horrible conditions and leave them to die right?). People who died of illness in the concentration camps were just as murdered as people who died in the gas chambers or those who died on the journey there or those who starved to death in hiding, or those who died on a long voyaye or by falling off a train while trying to escape the third reich.
The illness wasn’t the cause of her death, it was a method of extermination
and idk you just don’t get to use children who died as a result of genocide as a retorical device in your story….particularly if you don’t understand that. (But i don’t quite know how to put what I mena by this)
fearlessstateofmind backup 