from the testimony of mikhalenko andrei leonidovich. i learned about this tragedy as a child. from her grandmother taisa 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. and they all herded them here, ordered them to undress and shot them, not to mention even burying them or somehow they tried to hide some traces, just from above, perhaps with some improvised means, or with the sapper shovels that they had, shallowly, completely. the fact of the execution 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 empty corridors of the domashchevsky orphanage, where until recently children’s voices could be heard from everywhere, a deaf silence reigned, suddenly so