damashchevsky orphanage from the testimony of andrey leonidovich mikhalenko. about this tragedy. in childhood from her grandmother nataisa stepanovna shakhmetova, who in 1942 was a pupil of this orphanage, and just before the execution she managed to jump out of the car and escape; she and another boy, viktor abramov, survived this tragedy. but what really happened in the damashchevsky orphanage? what tragedy took place there in the autumn of '42? from children put in the car, tosya shekhmetova , 9 years old, got off the car and ran away, all the other 54 children, teacher grokholskaya, were taken in the direction of dubitsa station. the fact of the shooting was confirmed by residents of the village of leglevka. at the time of the execution they heard crying , screams of children and shots. in the following days, we were at the scene of the execution, we saw children’s corpses and the ground soaked with innocent children’s blood. in the deserted corridors of the damashchevsky orphanage, where until recently children’s voices could be heard from everywhere, a d