“When I escaped, I joined the partisans. This is before going on an operation to attack. I took the picture. Somebody else pressed the button, so I am here too. I am from the right side, the third one, lying on the grass. And in the extreme center is the main doctor, Ivan Vasilivitch, the one that holding his hands together. He saved my life many times. And you can see I am the only girl—mostly men are here.”

“This is a group of partisans, taken in 1943. I am in the center standing in the middle, with the leopard coat. And beside my right arm, in the center, is a little girl. This is Raika Kliger, the girl that I saved. And with many difficulties, I sent her to Moscow.”

“This is a picture taken in 1943. You can see how we performed operations [with] the partisans, in the woods. The operating table was made out of branches. After the operation, the sick person, the sick partisans, were going back to the ground to sleep on the floor.”

“Here I am, Faye Schulman, practicing how to aim. You can see I have here already an Automat, a ‘papasha.’ In the right, I have a gun, and I have a grenade. And no more a plain rifle, because I volunteered [to go] on every attack. So they thought that I deserved to have an Automat, that with one trigger pull, it would shoot 66 bullets.”

“This picture was taken in 1944. I am in the center. It was nearly the end of our liberation. And the one to my right is a partisan. He was an antisemite.”

“Here I am with my fellow partisan, in the little boat that we were going on a special mission. And it was raining all night. The boat was full with water. And he was helping me to pour out the water. And we were all wet. And when we came to this special place where we were supposed to come, we were very close, surrounded with enemies, with Nazis. And he said he will go out first. He'll pull in the boat, so I won't have to go in up to my waist in the water. And as soon as he walked out, he stepped on a mine, and he got torn to pieces. And I was left alone.”