[6][7] Shortly after the massacre she was ordered to develop photos by the Nazis, which she made personal copies of in secret.

[5] One of these photos was one in which she recognized the faces of some of her family members, dead in a mass grave, which made her determined to join the resistance.

[9] She joined the Molotava Brigade which was composed mostly of Soviet prisoners of war who had escaped from German captivity, working as a nurse and soldier for them from September 1942 to July 1944.

[7][10][3] During her time in the Molotava Brigade, she participated in numerous raids on her old village to restock on supplies.

During one of these raids, Schulman ordered her comrades to burn her old house down, so it wasn't left in the hands of the Nazis.

[5] When the Red Army liberated Belarus in July 1944, she was reunited with two of her brothers and left the brigade after being introduced to her future husband, Morris Schulman.

In her memoir, she told of thievery and drunkenness, of an officer who nearly killed her when she rejected his advances, and of antisemitism, writing: "Because I was Jewish, I had to work twice as hard to be deemed as worthy as the gentile girls.

My work as a nurse, a photographer and most of all as a soldier was plentiful reason for me to stand tall, to be proud of myself and my heritage.

[3] After the war, the couple stayed in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany, where they helped to smuggle weapons to support Israeli independence.