Four Winters Resources

A partial list of resources about the Jewish Partisans
who fought and resisted the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II

To learn more about Faye Schulman, the only known WWII Jewish Partisan photographer, watch:

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A short Look Through History documentary, The INCREDIBLE Story of Faye Schulman.

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This short film by her grandson Michael Tward

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And upon her death, an appreciation:

Additional Resources

Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation: Sulia Rubin talks about the partisan leadership of Tuvia Bielski.

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My Life My Way

Eta Wrobel’s memoir My Life My Way on Amazon

Anna Wrobel's Family

Photographs of Anna Wrobel’s Family

Maine poet, Holocaust educator and daughter of partisans will be our guest speaker at Bates and at Bowdoin. Many of Anna’s poems reflect her creative need to process, document and share the incomprehensible experience of her parents during World War II. My Life, My Way, Anna’s mother book, recounts her experience as a WW II partisan and her survival against all odds. 

The Crib

To the leftovers of war

in slums of Brooklyn born

my crib – a shell without legs

among garbage cans and rats

he took it back to the one

room for five behind the tiny

grocery on grease grimy streets

she scrubbed until it shined

and readied up the bed for

my small body brought here

near death in kidney pain

they asked him who to save

 

she was so sick – her or me

he had two babies at home stolen

from the grave by what seemed days

save my wife – said he

but we both came home

a Chicago surgeon’s mitzvah

before his heartland return

she placed me to sleep

in the dump-found crib

agleam in sunshine alight

four milk crates of wood

he’d set down to hold me

Anna Wrobel

To read more of Anna’s poems, visit this page.

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