Faye Shulman was born on 28 November 1919 in Lenin, Poland (Lenin, Belarus). Faye was married to Morris Schulman. Faye died on 24 April 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She was an armed resistance fighter in the forests of Eastern Europe during WWII. She joined a group of Soviet partisans in 1942 after the Nazis killed 1,850 Jewish people in her hometown in eastern Poland. She took many photos of the resistance fighters and their daily lives.