Julia Diament was born in Końskowola , Poland . She emigrated to Belgium in 1934 where she married Jean Pirotte , a labor activist in Brussels , and studied photography . In May 1940 , after the German occupation of Belgium and the deportation of her husband , Pirotte made her way to southern France , where she played an active role in Jewish and French resistance groups . Based in Marseille , she worked as a photojournalist for Dimanche Illustré and served as a courier for weapons , false papers and underground publications . During this time she took numerous photographs documenting life under the Vichy Regime . As a member of the '' Francs-Tireurs et Partisans '' , she was able to photograph the activities of the Maquis resistance in the summer of 1944 and the liberation of Marseille . After the war , Pirotte returned to Poland as a photojournalist for the Polish periodical '' Zolnierz Polski '' . During that period she covered the aftermath of the Kielce Pogrom of 4 July 1946 and attended the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace of 1948 in Wrocław , taking portraits of Pablo Picasso , Irène Joliot-Curie and Dominique Desanti . Pirotte visited Israel in 1957 . She later married Jefim Sokolski , a Polish economist who died in 1974
World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace
World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace
Julia Pirotte