Из Василия Сухомлинского "Сердце отдаю детям". Об Украине.....

From Vasily Sukhomlinsky "I give my heart to children". About Ukraine .. "Before the war, there were 5100 inhabitants in our village. 837 of our fellow villagers, of whom 785 men and 52 women, died heroes on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In addition to 837 fellow villagers who did not return home from the war fronts, 69 residents of our villages perished in fascist death camps - they were starved to death and inhuman torture, they were tortured, killed, and then burned in crematoria. 194 of them were killed, put to death in death camps, died of hunger and backbreaking labor, some of them were burnt alive in crematoria. Brother Pavel, taken to the city of Bochum, was burned out by the Nazi criminals for sabotage with a red-hot iron, and then they nailed him alive with nails to a wooden post Sister Tanya was buried alive in the ground for communist propaganda, Uncle Kostya was thrown into an iron cage, where he was naked for several days yenii. Yura's cousin was sent to be torn apart by shepherd dogs for trying to escape alive. A fascist officer took away a baby from Vali's cousin and smashed its head on stones in front of the mother's eyes. Aunt Lucy, a 26-year-old woman, was sent to the Nazi camp Auschwitz with two children - a 4-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son. In the camp, the mother was separated from the children. The woman told the fascist officer: "They are sick, please, let them stay with me." The fascist shouted: "If they are sick, we will treat them ..." And in front of a distraught mother, he threw undressed children on stones, trampled on children's bodies with forged boots ... "We not only ourselves must never forget this, but also, like a baton , to pass on the memory of human conscience to all coming generations, "I said to the children. This is our duty to the peoples of the whole world - we must neither forget nor forgive anything in the name of never repeating the horrors of fascism. "
The memory is short ...