Tanya Savicheva’s diary.
Twelve-year old Tanya Savicheva died in July of 1944. «The Diary of Tanya
Savicheva» was not published. It contains only seven scary notes about the deaths
of her family members in Leningrad at the time of the Blockade. This small
notebook was presented at the Nuremberg trials as a document condemning the
terrors of fascism.
Today «The Diary of Tanya Savicheva» is in the museum of history of Leningrad
(now St. Petersburg ) and a copy is at the Piskarev cemetery where 570 thousand
people who died in Leningrad during the 900-day blockade rest (1941-1943).
The child’s hand, losing strength quickly due to extreme hunger, wrote short words
and wrote them unevenly. The delicate soul of the child was paralyzed by extreme
suffering and wa ́չ