nadezhda fokishina, the great patriotic war affected every belarusian family.e sent to the fifth regiment concentration camp. tell me, what do you remember about those terrible events? my father went to war, and our grandfather, the regiment, because there was nothing, absolutely bare land, we really were in the summer, so we did not experience the horrors that the following prisoners, children, and prisoners of war, and women and men suffered such grief, after that we were loaded onto a freight train, there was a distribution camp, my grandparents were taken to an auschwitz concentration camp, we were loaded onto a huge german ship and across the baltic sea we were taken to germany. of the great patriotic war, vitebsk was completely destroyed, at the time of liberation there were only 118 inhabitants left in it, the revival of vitebsk is a real post-war feat, i know that your family was involved in it, when we arrived here, it was terrible, just there was nothing at all, practically everything was destroyed, dust, dirt, stones, everything, besides the fact tha