stepanovna shakhmetova, who in 1942 was a pupil of this orphanage, and just before the shooting she managedt of the car and escape, she and another boy, viktor abranoff, survived this tragedy, but what really happened in the damashchevskoye orphanage. what tragedy unfolded there in the fall of 1942, from children put in a car, and not that they even buried them or somehow tried to hide some traces, just from above, perhaps with some improvised means, or sapper shovels that they had, not deep, completely, the fact of the shooting was confirmed by the village residents leglyovka, they heard the cries of children and shots at the time of the shooting. in the following days. the place of the shooting, they saw children's corpses and the ground soaked with innocent children's blood. in the deserted corridors of the damashchevskiy orphanage, where children's voices had recently been heard from everywhere, a deaf silence reigned. suddenly someone's footsteps began to be heard: at first timid, cautious, then someone ran towards the room that served as the orphanage's bedroom. quietly began to cry o