valentina shishlo was 7 years old when she got caught in azararichi.r with her mother and three little brothers, the germans kicked her out of her native village, and then put the whole family behind barbed wire. it was a swamp. and we sat in this swamp for 10 days. we had nothing, just behind the barbed wire. towers , dogs and germans, they didn’t give us any food , they didn’t even allow us to light a fire, we were immediately shot, and we all sat there quietly, the night was coming, i know that there were five people nearby, somewhere small they were lying there, that’s all, i remember, my grandfather was lying with us, and in the morning, when the day dawned, my grandfather was already lying dead, about five people were already dead, there, in 9 days, more than 20,000, about 25 thousand, died from freezing, just imagine, 2,500 soviets died in 24 hours. found symptoms of typhus in most of the surviving prisoners. people were infected deliberately. this wild case was documented by soviet officers and later presented during the nuremberg tribunal. the