Two commissars of the Molotov partisan brigade pose outside with their rifles.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 56443

Overview

Caption: Two commissars of the Molotov partisan brigade pose outside with their rifles.

Pictured on the left is Vasiliy Timofeevich Merkul, commissar of the 101th Aleksandr Nevskiy partisan brigade. On the right is Ivan Yevmenovich Zhenov, commissar of the Shish partisan detachment.
Photographer: Faye Schulman (Faigel Lazebnik)
Date: 1942
Locale: [Pinsk; Belarus]
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War

Photo Source: Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War

Copyright: Public Domain

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS RESISTERS/RESISTANCE RUSSIANS/SOVIETS WEAPONS/ARMS
Photo Designation: RESISTANCE & PARTISANS -- Poland/USSR -- Jewish Resistance: Partisan Units -- Belorussia/Polesie