This post below caught my attention because of a story my dad told about his army experience. He transferred from the infantry (He fought in North Africa and Italy) to the JAG Corps at the end of WWII. At one point he had to defend an Italian-American GI charged with desertion. He was able to get the guy off by proving the soldier had gone to join his Italian relatives fighting as partisans in the mountains.
He also told me about walking through American cemeteries in Italy and counting the Stars of David because it made him angry that people were spreading lies about Jewish GIs, saying they served in the rear and didn’t fight on the front lines.
I’m going to the library tomorrow. I will have to check out the exhibit.
Pictures of Resistance
Faye Schulman wanted the world to know: Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter during World War II. They mounted resistance against their Nazi oppressors. “I was a photographer,” Schulman said. “I have pictures. I have proof.”
Her rare images, collected during her nearly two years in the forests along the Russian-Polish border with the Molotava Brigade partisan group, are spotlighted in the traveling exhibit Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman. They capture the camaraderie, the horror and loss, and the bravery and triumph of the ragtag but resolute partisans – some Jewish, some not – who fought the Germans and their collaborators.
The live event was two days ago, but you can watch it on YouTube.