orphanage, photographs taken on german-occupied belarusian territory, in new releases, taken by walter frenzan photographer. he often accompanied himler on trips to capture for history his great deeds in the name of greater germany, smiles, and touching care for children in the new german lands. eyewitness accounts, documents, facts about the atrocities that the nazis committed on belarusian soil indicate the opposite; in relation to children in the territory occupied by the nazis , a plan was implemented for their total destruction along with the adult population. general prosecutor's office of the republic of belarus criminal case of genocide of the population. damashchevsky orphanage from the testimony of andrey leonidovich mikhalenko. i learned more 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 pla