In Europe by Geert Mak

Author:Geert Mak [Mak, Geert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-49609-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2004-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter THIRTY-FOUR

Leningrad

ON DISPLAY IN ST PETERSBURG'S MUNICIPAL MUSEUM IS THE THIN, light-blue diary of eleven-year-old Tanya Savitsyeva. The only entries for 1941–2 are these:

Zyenya died, 28 December, 12.00 a.m. Grandmother died, 25 January, 1942, 3 p.m. Leka died, 17 March, 5 p.m. Uncle Vasya died, 13 April, 2 p.m. Uncle Aleksei, 10 May. Mama died, 13 May, 7.30 a.m. The Savitsyeva family is dead.

Following page:‘They are all dead.’ Following page:‘I am here alone.’ Tanya was evacuated and died in an orphanage, in 1944.

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