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Today is the Day of liberation of the prisoners of fascist concentration camps. The formal event would take place in a capital. The former fosters of an orphan home in Sokolniki have their own meeting day though they consider themselves the prisoners too. They call the former orphan asylum where the kindergarten is located now not other than concentration camp. As fosters say it is right there where thousands of children had died. For all the years after the war was finished the maximum they achieved is the status of disabled war veteran.
As Anatoly Reva estimated, today only 14 people are alive of few thousand of former fosters that died there in 666 days of Kharkiv occupation. Now the monument stands on the place where the orphan home was. Anatoly Reva tells that in Sokolniki was the special orphan asylum. There experiments with children were set and they were literally drained of their blood.
Anatoly Reva, the former prisoner of an orphan home in Sokolniki: “They drew off blood for many times! For very many times! How many times I woke up in the arms of a friend who has died at night. As far as I was lying next to him I had to undress him. Take off all his clothes. I remember how I undress one of them and saw that all his back is painted with iodine. It meant that he was punctured!”
Anatoly Reva remembers the taste of acorns up to now. It was almost dainty in 1942.
In opinion of fascist doctors, exactly the blood of the hungry children was the most useful and biologically active. Only those children who were infected with skin disease were not drawn a blood.
Nikolay Kalashnikov, the former prisoner of an orphan home in Sokolniki: “Children tried to catch the scab or scald in any way. But if the child catch it he should go to the gas chamber.”
Nikolay Kalashnikov says that the former fosters of Sokolniki orphan home got no special status. “Disabled war veteran” and the pension of UAH 500-600 – that is the maximum that they gained from the Ukrainian government. He says that the compensation was paid by the German government. Few thousand euro – this is even more than the prisoners of concentration camps were paid. The first publication about events that had place in Sokolniki was released in the middle of 80s, Anatoly Reva recalls. The former fosters had to search for evidences in archives by themselves to prove that all that is true.
// 11.04.2006 20:26
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/society/2006/2251.shtml
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