#faye schulman

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Faye Schulman in a forest in Poland, c. 1943/1944.

Schulman (born Faigel Lazebnik; November 28, 1919 – April 24, 2021) was a Jewish partisan, photographer, Holocaust survivor, and brigade member. She is widely considered to be the only Jewish partisan photographer who was able to capture the struggle Jews went through during World War II.

From 1942 to 1945, she took over 100 haunting photographs of the Holocaust and resistance fighters — even being forced by the Nazis to take one of massacred Jews, which among the victims included her parents and siblings. After this occurrence, she was determined to document the atrocities that the Germans inflicted, and later on was able to use these photos against them.

After the war ended in 1945, Schulman immigrated to Canada with her husband; released a memoir; was decorated by the Soviet/Belarusian, American, and Canadian governments; and lived another 76 years, peacefully dying at the age of 101.

"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.

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They also tell Mintz they don’t like to think of themselves as brave — more that, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt’s famous quote, they had bravery thrust upon them, because they couldn’t allow themselves to be carted away to die without a fight. It can be painful to hear their accounts of, for example, leaping from a moving train bound for the Treblinka concentration camp after failing to convince the other passengers, who knew they were being carried to their deaths, to jump with them.

Mintz largely trusts her subjects to carry the film themselves, though she occasionally dresses things up with stylish techniques: modern drone footage of the forests, or cross-cutting between a particularly gripping account and stock footage to heighten the tension.

But her focus on the storytelling reveals something else. Holocaust stories, rightly or wrongly, routinely portray Jews as defenseless victims — not as gutsy combatants capable of stabbing Nazis to death with makeshift knives so as not to waste precious bullets.

With its attention to these and other grisly details of combat and survival, Four Winters ultimately feels like a kind of Holocaust counter-narrative, a rebuke to the hundreds of stories of Jews who, the stories often imply, simply allowed themselves to die.

#four winters #julia mintz #faye schulman

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A Chorus Line (1985)

A Chorus Line by #RichardAttenborough starring #MichaelDouglas, "none of the finer moments of this piece can make up for the fact that it is a slog to sit through"

RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5 USA, 1985. Embassy Pictures, Polygram Pictures, A Feuer and Martin Production. Screenplay by Arnold Schulman, based on the musical by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood Jr., Nicholas Dante. Cinematography by Ronnie Taylor. Produced by Cy Feuer, Ernest H. Martin. Music by Ralph Burns. Production Design by Patrizia von Brandenstein. Costume Design by…

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#A Feuer and Martin Production #Academy Award 1985 #Alyson Reed #Arnold Schulman #Audrey Landers #Bambi Jordan #Barbara Koval #Blane Savage #Cameron English #Charles McGowan #Cy Feuer #Embassy Pictures #Ernest H. Martin #Faye Poliakin #Gloria Lynch #Golden Globe 1985 #Gregg Burge #Gregg Huffman #Jack Lehnert #James Kirkwood Jr. #Jan Gan Boyd #Janet Jones #Jeffrey Cornell #Jennifer Kent #John Bloom #John Hammil #Justin Ross #Karen Prunczik #Mansoor Najee-ullah #Matt West

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THURSDAY HERO: Faye Schulman

Faye Schulman was a young Jewish photographer in Poland who became a resistance fighter after her family was slaughtered by the Germans. For the next two years, she took pictures of what she witnessed, leaving an extensive photographic record for posterity.

Born Faigel Lazebnik in 1919, she was one of seven children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Lenin, a small village in Poland. Known as Faye, she learned four languages: Yiddish at home, Polish at school, Hebrew in religious school, and Russian among the non-Jewish townspeople. Her brother Moshe was a professional photographer and she worked as his assistant, developing a keen eye and a talent for photography. When Moshe moved to another town, Faigel took over his business.

After the Germans invaded Lenin in 1941, they forced the town’s Jews into a squalid ghetto. On August 14, 1942, the Nazis “liquidated” the Lenin ghetto by brutally murdering 1,850 Jews, including Faye’s parents, sisters, and brother. Only 26 Jews were spared because the Nazis could make use of their skills. Faye was ordered to develop photographs of the massacre that claimed the lives of her family as well as almost everyone she knew. She secretly made extra copies of the pictures and kept them to bear testimony to Nazi crimes against humanity.

Soon after, Faye escaped from the Nazis and joined the Molotava Brigade, a group of Russian resistance fighters in the forest of Belarus. She said, “This was the only way I could fight back and avenge my family.” They were known as “partisans” – an insurgent militia group opposing an occupation army. Despite rampant antisemitism in the group, she was allowed to join because she had some basic medical skills learned from her late brother-in-law, who had been a doctor in Lenin. Faye became the group’s nurse, serving alongside the resident doctor, a veterinarian. For almost two years, Faye dressed fighters’ wounds and did whatever she could for sick and injured fighters, despite a lack of medical equipment. She participated in armed raids, later remembering “When it was time to be hugging a boyfriend, I was hugging a rifle. Now I said to myself, my life is changed. I learned how to look after the wounded, I even learned how to make operations.”

Faye’s partisan brigade raided her hometown of Lenin, during which the resistance fighters acquired food, weapons and supplies. As they passed her childhood home, Faye urged her fellow partisans to burn it to the ground, which they did. “I won’t be living here. The family’s killed. To leave it for the enemy? I said right away: Burn it!”

Faye found her old photographic equipment, and brought it back to their forest encampment. For the next two years, Faye documented the dangerous existence of anti-Nazi partisans. It was vitally important to her because as she later said, “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’s resistance group was liberated by the Soviets in July 1944. After the war ended, she was overjoyed to find that her brother Moshe had also survived and had been part of another resistance group. Faye and Moshe were the only survivors of their family of nine. Soon after Faye married Morris Schulman, who’d fought alongside Moshe. They decided to make a new life in Palestine, then occupied by the British, who made it difficult if not impossible for war-scarred Holocaust survivors to enter the land. For two years the Schulmans were stuck in a displaced persons camp in Germany, waiting for the opportunity to immigrate. They helped smuggle arms into Palestine to support the Jews fighting for independence. In 1947 Faye became pregnant, and they needed someplace safe to live. They were able to get visas to Canada, and settled in Toronto, where they ran a family business and raised two children. In 1995, Faye published a book about her experience as an anti-Nazi resistance fighter: “A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust.”

Faye died on April 24, 2021, surrounded by her family, at age 101. Sadly, the last few years of her life saw an upsurge of antisemitism worldwide. Faye left an inspiring message for young people today: “To Jewish kids I would like to say – be proud to be Jewish. To non-Jewish kids I would like to say – if there is a war and you have to fight, fight for freedom and don’t be ashamed to be in the army.”

For saving lives, battling Nazis, and leaving a photographic record so the horrors of the Holocaust would not be forgotten, we honor Faye Lazebnik Schulman as this week’s Thursday Hero.

#Thursday Hero 🎖️

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 28 November 1919, Faigel Lazebnik, better known as Faye Schulman, photographer and Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland (now Belarus). In 1942, the Nazis murdered 1,850 Jews in the Lenin ghetto, leaving only Faye and 25 others alive, making Schulman take and develop photos of the massacre. Covertly she made copies of the photographs for herself. She soon fled and joined the partisan resistance, serving as a fighter and nurse. While on a raid in Lenin with her unit, Schulman managed to retrieve her camera equipment, and then began documenting the resistance movement, developing her photos under blankets. "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." Schulman survived the war and moved to Canada, eventually passing away on April 24, 2021, aged 101. Learn more about women in the resistance to nazism in our podcast episodes 63-64: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e63-64-mildred-fish-harnack/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2146339885551150/?type=3

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How are you helping the women's liberation movement? Such a access to abortion clinics and so on... I rarely see you post anything that has to do with women unless it's about trans women and other non-binary afabs...

Hey there Anon, we are an anti-fascist social media collective consisting of ten people in eight countries. We've been doing our thing since 2014. In that time we have: -been documenting and tracking hate-motivated violence targeting women. -provided legal defence funding to 100 feminists arrested in Germany for stopping a fascist march against abortion access (via The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund) -provided additional support (via the Defence Fund) to this teacher, this other teacher, this woman, this community college staffer, this PNW woman, this waitress, Louise Thundercloud, two moms in SC, this victim of the 2017 Charlottesville terror attack, this BLM defender, Lina, Alissa Azar, Kita and Xvedia, Tabitha, and this Filipina activist, among others. -profiled anti-fascists like Marina Abiol, Hedy Epstein, Jane Elliot, Leah Feldman, Giovanina Berneri, Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, Yuri Kochiyam, Natalie Tran, Elizabeth Mironova, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Magda, Arundhati Roy, Anastasia Baburova, Zinaida Portnova, Marina Ginestà, Heather McGhee, Akilah Green, Fanya Schoonheyt, Sophie Scholl, Tina Anselmi, Faye Schulman, Hanna Bohman, Viola Liuzzo, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Maria Kislyak, Maria Dimadi, Georgette Kokoczinski, Irma Bandiera, Franceska Mann, Rebecca West, Lepa Radic, Giovannina Caleffi, and Audrey Hepburn, among others. Still, we could be posting more, of course! Why don't you tag us on posts from your tumblr you think we should reblog/signal boost? (finally, we get a whiff of "all lives matter/TERFishness from your objections about us not posting enough about "women" except for "trans women" - we hope that's not how you intended your msg!

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Del bosque a la libertad

12 julio 2023

"Me sentía terriblemente sola y abandonada. A veces no me importaba lo que pudiera ocurrirme, pero la mayor parte del tiempo recordaba que quizá fuese la única superviviente de mi familia. Solo a través de mí continuaría viva su memoria. Ese pensamiento era lo único que me daba fuerzas para seguir adelante."

Faye Schulman – Del bosque a la libertad

Fotografía de Ildefonso Robledo (Inteligencia Artificial y posterior edición)

@etarrago

[foxingpeculiar]

Since the only movie I'm watching tonight is 200 Cigarettes, I've got my list of movies I watched for the first time this year. It's a little low (158 instead of the usual +/- 200) but... well, it's been a year.

Property is No Longer a Theft (1973, Ello Petri)

Zola (2021, Janicza Bravo)

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021, Michael Showalter)

A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021, William Eubank)

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015, Gregory Plotkin)

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014, Christopher Landon)

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012, Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost)

The Nun (2018, Corin Hardy)

Hell-Bound Train (1930, Eloyce & James Gist)

Family Plot (1976, Alfred Hitchcock)

The Witch of King’s Cross (2020, Sonia Bible)

Teknolust (2002, Lynn Hershman Leeson)

Giant (1956, George Stevens)

Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)

Messiah of Evil (1973, Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz)

House (1986, Steve Miner)

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014, Adam Robitel)

A Woman is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021, Kier-La Janisse)

The Tragedy of MacBeth (2021, Joel Coen)

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson)

Last Night in Soho (2021, Edgar Wright)

Thelma (2017, Joachim Trier)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)

Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski)

In the Earth (2021, Ben Wheatley)

Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021, Lisa Immordino Vreeland)

9 (2009, Shane Acker)

Chimes at Midnight (1966, Orson Welles)

WeWork, or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021, Jed Rothstein)

Enemies of the State (2020, Sonia Kennebeck)

A Glitch in the Matrix (2021, Rodney Ascher)

Citizenfour (2014, Laura Poitras)

The Cremator (1969, Juraj Herz)

Angst (1983, Gerard Kargl)

Death on the Nile (1978, John Guillerman)

The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion)

Nightmare Alley (2021, Guillermo Del Toro)

Mirror (1974, Andrei Tarkovsky)

House of Gucci (2021, Ridley Scott)

Free Guy (2021, Shawn Levy)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L Mankiewicz)

Say Amen Somebody (1982, George T Nierenberg)

Poison Ivy (1992, Katt Shea)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)

Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano)

Pale Flower (1964, Masahiro Shinoda)

Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller)

A Time to Kill (1996, Joel Schumacher)

Murder by Numbers (2002, Barbet Schroeder)

Antlers (2021, Scott Cooper)

Drive My Car (2021, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg)

Superman II (1980, Richard Lester)

West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg)

Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson)

The Batman (2022, Matt Reeves)

You Can’t Kill Meme (2021, Hayley Garrigus)

Being the Ricardos (2021, Aaron Sorkin)

Summer of Soul (2021, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)

Talk to Me (2007, Kasi Lemmons)

The Night House (2021, David Bruckner)

Here Comes the Devil (2012, Adrián Garcia Bogliano)

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010, Paul W.S. Anderson)

The Ritual (2017, David Bruckner)

The Bye Bye Man (2017, Stacy Title)

Creep (2014, Patrick Brice)

From Within (2008, Phedon Papamichael)

X (2022, Ti West)

Moonfall (2022, Roland Emmerich)

Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)

The Purge (2013, James DeMonaco)

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020, Danny Wolf)

Caligula (1979, Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione & Giancarlo Lui)

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932, Dorothy Arzner)

The Alchemist Cookbook (2016, Joel Potrykus)

Spoor (2017, Agnieszka Holland)

Cliffhanger (1993, Renny Harlin)

Runaway Jury (2003, Gary Fleder)

A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954, Hiroshi Inagaki)

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955, Hiroshi Inagaki)

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956, Hiroshi Inagaki)

Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022, Akiva Schaffer)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)

Men (2022, Alex Garland)

Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan)

Saint Maud (2019, Rose Glass)

Bernie (2011, Richard Linklater)

Pineapple Express (2008, David Gordon Green)

Voyeur (2021, Myles Kane & Josh Koury)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985, Alan Metter)

Conspiracy Theory (1997, Richard Donner)

Experiment in Terror (1962, Blake Edwards)

The Nightingale (2018, Jennifer Kent)

Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John M. Stahl)

Black Widow (1954, Nunnally Johnson)

The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022, Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman)

Incantation (2022, Kevin Ko)

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989, Don Bluth)

Nope (2022, Jordan Peele)

House of Bamboo (1956, Samuel Fuller)

Jurassic World: Dominion (2022, Colin Trevorrow)

The Black Phone (2022, Scott Derrickson)

The Presidio (1988, Peter Hyams)

Barbarian (2022, Zach Creeger)

Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)

Vengeance (2022, BJ Novak)

Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg)

Don’t Worry Darling (2022, Olivia Wilde)

Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982, Amy Holden Jones)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, Halina Reijn)

Dead and Buried (1981, Gary Sherman)

Blonde (2022, Andrew Dominik)

Phantasm II (1988, Don Coscarelli)

Hellraiser (2022, David Bruckner)

The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)

Next of Kin (1982, Tony Williams)

The Funhouse (1981, Tobe Hooper)

Dream Demon (1988, Harley Cokeliss)

The Hidden (1987, Jack Sholder)

Prince of Darkness (1987, John Carpenter)

White of the Eye (1987, Donald Cammell)

Halloween (2018, David Gordon Green)

Halloween Kills (2021, David Gordon Green)

Halloween Ends (2022, David Gordon Green)

Terror Train (1980, Roger Spottiswoode)

The House by the Cemetery (1981, Lucino Fulci)

Strange Behavior (1981, Michael Laughlin)

Road Games (1981, Richard Franklin)

Final Destination (2000, James Wong)

Daughters of Darkness (1971, Harry Kümel)

Matango (1963, Ishiro Honda)

Thirst (2009, Park Chan-Wook)

Wolfen (1981, Michael Wadleigh)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)

Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)

The Dark Corner (1946, Henry Hathaway)

Encino Man (1992, Les Mayfield)

The Good Nurse (2022, Tobias Lindholm)

Son in Law (1993, Steve Rash)

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1978, Ulrike Ottinger)

Henri-Georges Cluzot’s “Inferno” (2009, Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea)

The Blue Dahlia (1946, George Marshall)

Pearl (2022, Ti West)

Amsterdam (2022, David O. Russell)

Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, Rian Johnson)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh)

Song of the Thin Man (1947, Edward Buzzell)

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941, W.S. Van Dyke)

RRR (2022, S.S. Rajamouli)

Another Thin Man (1939, W.S. Van Dyke)

Saaho (2019, Sujeeth)

Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund)

#personal #movies

[laresearchette]

Saturday, October 08, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? CURSED FRIENDS (Premiering on October 21 on Much at 10:00pm) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CARI FARVER (TBD - Lifetime Canada) PUMPKIN EVERYTHING (TBD)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CRAVE TV 44 CATS (Season 2, Episodes 1-52) MECHA BUILDERS (Season 1, Episodes 1-26) THE RACCOONS SPECIALS THE RACCOONS (Seasons 1-5) SESAME STREET (Season 52)

GRAND SLAM OF CURLING (SN360) 12:00pm: National - Women’s Quarterfinals (SN1/SN360) 4:00pm: National - Men’s Quarterfinals (SN 360) 8:00pm: National - Semifinals

MLB BASEBALL - WILD CARD GAMES (SN1) 12:00pm: Rays vs. Guardians - Game #2 (SN) 4:00pm: Mariners vs. Jays - Game #2 (SN) 7:30pm: Padres vs. Mets  - Game #2 (SN1) 8:30pm: Phillies vs. Cardinals  - Game #2

PRE-SEASON NHL HOCKEY (SN Now) 2:00pm: Predators vs. Sharks (TSN4) 7:00pm: Red Wings vs. Leafs (SN Now) 7:00pm: Devils vs. Bruins

WOMEN’S RUGBY WORLD CUP (TSN) 2:00pm: Match of the Day (TSN3) 7:30pm: United States vs. Italy (TSN/TSN3) 10:15pm: Japan vs. Canada

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 4:00pm: Lions vs. Argos (TSN/TSN5) 7:00pm: Elks vs. Blue Bombers

W5 (CTV) 7:00pm: Royal Retreat; Smoked

MLS SOCCER (TSN4) 7:30pm: CF Montreal vs. DC United (TSN/TSN4/TSN5) 10:00pm: Whitecaps FC vs. Austin

ABSOLUTELY CANADIAN (CBC) 8:00pm: Hodan's Story; The Photographer:  Hodan Nalayeh returns to her birth country of Somalia to spread light; Faye Schulman survived the Nazis because she could operate a camera and became one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers of WWII.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (CTV) 8:00pm: After an experimental program turns him into a supersoldier, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), now known as Captain America, leads the fight against Red Skull's evil HYDRA organization.

BIG FOOD BUCKET LIST (Food Network Canada) 8:00pm: Dutch Dutch Baby

YELLOWSTONE ROMANCE (W Network) 8:00pm: When Olivia learns her best friend intends to marry a breeder and leave the city, she decides to organize a bachelorette party at a ranch in the countryside. Fate soon strikes when Olivia finds herself falling for the owner of the ranch.

THE KILLER IN MY FAMILY (CTV Drama) 8:00pm/9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Fred and Rose West committed at least a dozen horrific murders over two decades. Fred's brother and niece reveal how his heinous crimes affected the family. In Episode Two, Richard Ramirez raped and tortured over 25 victims and killed over a dozen. His niece tells her story and reveals how his terrible crimes affected the family.

AN AUTUMN ROMANCE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm:  A woman tries to save a small, historic hotel from developers, but she soon realizes that the man she's falling for is behind the hotel's development plans.

SOUL ON ICE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (CBC) 9:00pm: The unknown contributions of black athletes in ice hockey.

SINS OF THE AMISH (Lifetime Canada) 9:00pm/10:15pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  A group of Amish survivors and experts expose the private world of Plain communities and the abuse fueled by their customs; forbidden from engaging with outsiders, one brave survivor reports family members to the police, which culminates in a trial.

WOLF (Crave) 9:00pm: Believing he's a wolf trapped in a man's body, Jacob and his animal-bound peers undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat, their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation.

ZERO CONTACT (Starz Canada) 9:00pm:  Connected by their devotion to the late founder and tech titan Finley Hart, five people must work together to shut down his most secret invention, a machine that is either the solution to mankind's problems or the end of life on Earth.

THE RIGHTEOUS (Super Channel Fuse) 9:10pm:  Grappling with grief and struggling with his faith, a man encounters an enigmatic stranger who has sinister intentions.

PICTURE PERFECT ROMANCE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 9:30pm: Zoey Ross gave up on love and her passion for wedding photography after her fiance, Todd, left her at the alter five years ago. When a childhood friend insists that she be their wedding photographer, she reluctantly accepts and finds herself again.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #W5 #absolutely canadian #big food bucket list #curling #MLB Baseball #nhl hockey #women's rugby #cfl football #mls soccer

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In the stunning new documentary Four Winters, award-winning filmmaker Julia Mintz shatters myths of Jewish passivity during World War II, highlighting stories of Jews who escaped to the forests of Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus and banded together in partisan brigades to fight back against Nazis and their collaborators.

Fleeing from cities and towns, some jumping from trains headed to concentration camps, over 25,000 Jewish partisans, many just teenagers, courageously fought back against the Nazi attacks, all while hiding for four years deep in the forests.

“All I owned was my camera, leopard coat, rifle and a grenade in case I’m captured … the pillow was the rifle, the walls were the trees and the sky was the roof,” said partisan Faye Schulman.

...Mintz’s film interlaces compelling archival images and interviews with eight of the last surviving partisans—five women and three men—who share stories about their lives before, during and after the war.

While many documentary films on the holocaust feature scholars and historians, Four Winters focuses exclusively on the voices of the partisans themselves, who were in their 80s and 90s when Mintz interviewed them.

“What became really evident to me was that this was the final opportunity to hear the actual people who lived this history in their own words—for them to tell their truths, their experiences, their stories,” said Mintz. “I wanted to revisit the raw quality and have them be able to really share. A lot of the partisans told me things they never told their families or other people.”...

Four Winters premieres at the Film Forum in New York City on September 16. Tickets here. Follow the film on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

#Holocaust tw #Jewish resistance #Nazis tw #documentary #Jewish women #world war ii #wwii

[popculturebrain]

Michael Showalter To Direct Anne Hathaway In ‘The Idea of You’ for Prime Video; Cathy Schulman & Gabrielle Union Producing

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon’s Prime Video has set The Big Sick and The Eyes of Tammy Faye director Michael Showalter to helm and Anne Hathaway to star in The Idea of You, an adaptation of the Robinne Lee novel.

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[zot3-flopped]

Robinne Lee's Harry Styles fan fiction The Idea of You is being made into a film starring Anne Hathaway.

#in the book there's a 20 year age gap #they've knocked it down to 16 #the idea of you

[jaypaulphoto]

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was chosen because it marks the day in 1945 that Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp, was liberated by Soviet troops. The Virginia Holocaust Museum first opened in 1997 and moved to its current location, 2000 E. Cary Street, in 2003. Around 42,000 people visit the museum each year, according to their website. A traveling exhibit, Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography Faye Schulman is on view until March 31. @jaypaulphoto #richmondmag #rva #holocaust #lightthedarkness #holocaustremembranceday (at Virginia Holocaust Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn8KO4du7F2gOYYKZd5HZG0eYK_FIjKww4f9K80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#richmondmag #rva #holocaust #lightthedarkness #holocaustremembranceday

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Women in World War II: The Spies They Never Saw Coming

Left to right, Noor Inayat Khan (Imperial War Museums), Josephine Baker (Library of Congress), and Virginia Hall (Lorna Catling Collection). 

Josephine Baker, an American vaudeville performer turned glittering star of Paris, was at the peak of her fame in 1939 when the Nazi regime began its stranglehold on Europe. But then came an offer that changed her life.

Like Baker, Virginia Hall, an American who lost a leg in a hunting accident, and Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim pacifist, weren’t prototypical spies. And that was exactly the point. Learn how they turned prejudice and society’s low expectations of women into weapons that hid their critical work to defeat the Nazis.

Speakers CIA Museum's Deputy Director

Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Holocaust Studies expert and research professor, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota

Moderator Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Watch live at facebook.com/holocaustmuseum. You do not need a Facebook account to view our program. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum's Facebook page

📖 https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/vefbswmnspies0321

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Marisa Diena: Spy Trainer Partisan spy Marisa Diena and other Italian women partisans were able to move about during the day without arousing suspicion, unlike their male counterparts, most of whom were army deserters. She enlisted and trained other women to become spies and couriers. Learn More https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/marisa-diena

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The Double Life of Josephine Baker We remember Josephine Baker as a singer and dancer who had to leave her native country to find freedom and fame. What fewer know is that when Nazism threatened that freedom she so treasured, Baker also turned her talents toward defending it—as a spy. Learn More - https://medium.com/memory-action/the-double-life-of-josephine-baker-ad35134af8dd

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Faye Schulman: Secret Photographer After her family was killed in a massacre in occupied Poland, Faye Schulman, spared for her photographic abilities, fled and joined a partisan group. She took over 100 photos, documenting a rare side of partisan activity. Learn More https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/faye-schulman

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Faye Schulman was a young Jewish photographer in Poland who became a resistance fighter after her family was slaughtered by the Nazis. For the next two years, she took pictures of what she witnessed, leaving an extensive photographic record for posterity.

Born Faigel Lazebnik in 1919, she was one of seven children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Lenin, a small village in Poland. Known as Faye, she learned four languages: Yiddish at home, Polish at school, Hebrew in religious school, and Russian among the non-Jewish townspeople. Her brother Moshe was a professional photographer and she worked as his assistant, developing a keen eye and a talent for photography. When Moshe moved to another town, Faigel took over his business.

After the Nazis invaded Lenin in 1941, they forced the town’s Jews into a squalid ghetto. On August 14, 1942, the Germans “liquidated” the Lenin ghetto by brutally murdering 1,850 Jews, including Faye’s parents, sisters, and brother. Only 26 Jews were spared because the Nazis could make use of their skills. Faye was ordered to develop photographs of the massacre that claimed the lives of her family as well as almost everyone she knew. She secretly made extra copies of the pictures and kept them to bear testimony to Nazi crimes against humanity.

Soon after, Faye escaped from the Nazis and joined the Molotava Brigade, a group of Russian resistance fighters in the forest of Belarus. She said, “This was the only way I could fight back and avenge my family.” They were known as “partisans” – an insurgent militia group opposing an occupation army. Despite rampant antisemitism in the group, she was allowed to join because she had some basic medical skills learned from her late brother-in-law, who had been a doctor in Lenin. Faye became the group’s nurse, serving alongside the resident doctor, a veterinarian. For almost two years, Faye dressed fighters’ wounds and did whatever she could for sick and injured fighters, despite a lack of medical equipment. She participated in armed raids, later remembering “When it was time to be hugging a boyfriend, I was hugging a rifle. Now I said to myself, my life is changed. I learned how to look after the wounded, I even learned how to make operations.”

Faye’s partisan brigade raided her hometown of Lenin, during which the resistance fighters acquired food, weapons and supplies. As they passed her childhood home, Faye urged her fellow partisans to burn it to the ground, which they did. “I won’t be living here. The family’s killed. To leave it for the enemy? I said right away: Burn it!”

Faye found her old photographic equipment, and brought it back to their forest encampment. For the next two years, Faye documented the dangerous existence of anti-Nazi partisans. It was vitally important to her because as she later said, “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’s resistance group was liberated by the Soviets in July 1944. After the war ended, she was overjoyed to find that her brother Moshe had also survived and had been part of another resistance group. Faye and Moshe were the only survivors of their family of nine. Soon after Faye married Morris Schulman, who’d fought alongside Moshe. They decided to make a new life in Palestine, then occupied by the British, who made it difficult if not impossible for war-scarred Holocaust survivors to enter the land. For two years the Schulmans were stuck in a displaced persons camp in Germany, waiting for the opportunity to immigrate. They helped smuggle arms into Palestine to support the Jews fighting for independence. In 1947 Faye became pregnant, and they needed someplace safe to live. They were able to get visas to Canada, and settled in Toronto, where they ran a family business and raised two children. In 1995, Faye published a book about her experience as an anti-Nazi resistance fighter: “A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust.”

Faye died on April 24, 2021, surrounded by her family, at age 101. Sadly, the last few years of her life saw an upsurge of antisemitism worldwide. Faye left an inspiring message for young people today: “To Jewish kids I would like to say – be proud to be Jewish. To non-Jewish kids I would like to say – if there is a war and you have to fight, fight for freedom and don’t be ashamed to be in the army.”

For saving lives, battling Nazis, and leaving a photographic record so the horrors of the Holocaust would not be forgotten, we honor Faye Lazebnik Schulman as this week’s Thursday Hero.

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