Soviet children, the prisoners of the 6th Finnish concentration camp in Petrozavodsk city.
During the Finnish occupation of Soviet Karelia, six concentration camps were established in Petrozavodsk to support local Russian-speaking residents. Camp №6 was located in the area of the Transshipment Exchange, it held 7000 people. The Soviet children photo was taken after the liberation of Petrozavodsk by Soviet troops on June 28, 1944.
This snapshot was presented as part of evidence at the Nuremberg trial of war criminals.
The girl in the Soviet children photo is the second from the pillar on the right – Claudia Nyppieva – after many years published her memoirs.
“I remember how people fainted from the heat in the so-called bath, and then they poured cold water on them. I remember the disinfection of the barracks, after which my nose was bleeding, and the steam room, where with great “diligence” they were treating all our rags, was running nose to nose. Once the steam room burned down, depriving many people of their last clothes”.
The author’s name of the Soviet children photo is “Prisoners of Fascism”.
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Location: Petrozavodsk, USSR
Date: July 1944
Photo by Galina Sanko