"This is my parents’, Rayzel Migdalovich and Yakov Lazebnik, wedding picture. It is really a treasure for me. They were young. My father was killed by the Nazis when he was 54. My mother was killed when she was 52. At that time, they were still young and energetic. But the war made them feel old."

Date:	c. 1919
Location:	Lenin
Source:	JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 37

"I am on the ground, the third from the right with my Red Cross box behind my head. Ivan Vasilewich, the Brigade’s doctor, is in the center, hands crossed in front. As you see, one girl and all boys. You can imagine that sometimes it was a little hard because there was nobody with me."

Date:	Fall 1942
Location:	Forests near Lenin
Source:	JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 147

Two weeks after the mass killing in Lenin, during a partisan attack, Faye escaped Lenin and joined the partisans of the Molotova Brigade. When she saw someone she knew, it was a moment of great joy…. ‘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’.

Date:	Winter 1944
Location:	Forests near Lenin
Source:	JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 139

‘We took this picture because Rosa and I had done something successful. Funny, I remember taking the photograph but I don’t remember exactly what we had done. There were so many experiences, so many dangerous things we did. To come out of it and take a photo was a sign of success.’

Date:	Early Spring 1944
Location:	Forests near Pinsk
Source:	JPEF

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.'

Date:	1944
Location:	Forests near Pinsk
Source:	JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 105

"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."

Date:	End of Winter 1943
Location:	Forests near Pinsk
Source:	JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 115

"We married knowing each other’s stories, two partisans, and we tried to live as if nothing had happened, building new and normal lives."

Date:	End of 1944
Location:	Minsk
Source:	JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 209

This is a photograph of Faye before the Russians came to her town. The year is 1938 and Faye is about fourteen years old.

Date:	1938
Location:	Lenin, Poland
Source:

"After the war, when I was in Canada, I wanted to have a picture with my camera. It is the same camera that I used in the partisans; the same one the Nazis took from me and gave back…I would never like to part, as long as I live, with this camera. It has so many memories and stories. So many things happened and this camera has seen everything."

Date:	1999
Location:	Toronto, Canada
Source:	JPEF