The Germans made her develop photographs of her family’s murder. She secretly kept copies. On August 14, 1942, German forces massacred 1,850 Jews from the ghetto of Lenin, in present-day Belarus—including Faye Schulman’s parents, sisters, and younger brother. Faye was among just 26 people spared. Her photography skills made her useful to the killers. When ordered to develop their photographs of the massacre, she secretly made an extra set—preserving evidence of the crime. She later escaped during a partisan raid and joined a Soviet partisan unit in the forest. With no medical experience, she became a nurse. Their doctor had been a veterinarian; their operating table was made from tree branches. During another raid, she recovered her photographic equipment. She developed negatives beneath blankets, printed photographs using sunlight, and buried her camera before missions to keep it safe. One photograph shows her smiling beside three Jewish friends. Each had believed the others dead. Amid the fighting—and antisemitism within her own unit—their reunion offered a rare moment of relief. More than a hundred photographs preserved her world: wounded comrades, forest camps, funerals, friendship. “I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.” Faye settled in Canada after the war. She died on April 24, 2021, aged 101. Her photographs still bear witness. Follow @Vanguard_WW2 for more extraordinary lives behind the history of World War II.