engage in battle with fascists. to feed the children, a man wiping his tears at the monument, semyon katkovhe grew up in this orphanage, semyon ivanovich has long been dead, but his testimony is still alive, i remember well the day when german planes bombed our orphanage , our building burned down, they were already sleeping , it seems to me, like... before everyone had a bed, three or four people were already sleeping on a bed, yes, not only were there not enough beds, in forty-one there were more than 100 people huddled here, from archival documents, testimony of anastasia usova from domachevo. on the first day of the war, a german who entered the courtyard of an orphanage saw a mass of children and said: “it’s a shame we didn’t send a couple of extra shells here, otherwise we’ll have to feed the parasites. ” but the first month of the war cleared out the boarding rooms, 15 children, the kids were the first to be hit with jewish roots, they were taken to the ghetto and a year later in 1942 they were shot. such atrocity could not have been imagined by the future teacher of children polina