Forty Years After Childhood

G. Khomzor, Izvestia's photojournalist, recalls the story of a photograph in which a soldier is holding a rescued girl in his arms. Newsreel of the Second World War: destroyed houses, a German soldier closes a carriage with children. V. Novikova talks about how she was in a concentration camp. Newsreel: the corpses of children and women. A. Kalashnikova talks about refugees. Types of streets in besieged Leningrad: a corpse is being carried on a sled. Evacuation of children. Children work in military enterprises: boys in a rolling shop, assembling mines. E. Koshura recalls how children were met in Uzbekistan. N. Semenova, an orphanage teacher in the city of Kokand, tells about the evacuated children, and M. Khodzhaeva, the director of an orphanage in Tashkent. Newsreel: soldiers liberate children from a concentration camp, children in a destroyed school. The story of G. Kherson, soloist of the USSR symphony orchestra, pupil of the Samarkand orphanage. E. Dzhantemirov tells how he adopted a boy in 1943. Newsreel: a child on the ruins of Hiroshima. Monument to Sh. Sh. Kuznets and his wife, who adopted 15 children. WWII veteran, doctor A. Nazarov talks about the fate of children.

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1985