The Little Prisoners of Buchenwald

During the Great Patriotic War, I was captured and imprisoned in the Buchenwald fascist concentration camp. In it, thousands of prisoners died from hunger, abuse, and the bullets of the Gestapo and SS.

Among them were many children.

In April 1945, freedom returned to us. Many years have passed since then, but I have never forgotten my fellow prisoners—courageous people. And I won’t forget the little captives either. I knew many of them well. They were very brave boys.

When an underground anti-fascist organization was preparing an uprising, we needed to obtain weapons, ammunition, and medicines. That hardest task was helped by the small prisoners. Some of them went with us to storm the camp’s fortifications.

The book is based on real events and real, not invented, heroes. Of course, for some of them, the names and surnames had to be changed—that’s just a literary device. Everything else is truthful.
(From the author)