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Everyone knows about Anna Frank and her diary, but let me tell you about the other girl, who lived and died during the War.

Her name was Tanya Savicheva. Born on January 23, 1930, she was the youngest child in a big family. Her father died when Tanya was six, leaving her mother with five children—three girls, Tanya, Zhenya (Eugenia) and Nina and two boys, Mikhail and Leka (Leonid).

The family planned to spend the summer of 1941 in the countryside, but the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22 disrupted their plans. All of them, except Mikhail (Misha), who had already left, decided to stay in Leningrad. Through out all 872 days of Blocade. Each of them worked to support the army, even the 11 years old Tanya, who dug trenches and put out firebombs. Nina was evacuated and she left Tanya a small diary, only nine pages left.

Her name was Tanya Savicheva and this is her diary:

• Zhenya died on Dec. 28th at 12:00 P.M. 1941
• Grandma died on Jan. 25th 3:00 P.M. 1942
• Leka died on March 5th at 5:00 A.M. 1942
• Uncle Vasya died on Apr. 13th at 2:00 after midnight 1942
• Uncle Lesha on May 10th at 4:00 P.M. 1942
• Mother on May 13th at 7:30 A.M. 1942
• Savichevs died.
• Everyone died.
• Only Tanya is left.

It’s unconfirmed but they say that those pages were presented at the Nuremberg Trials as one of the evidences.