On this dramatic scene lived a fourteen-year girl who saw like day after day All members of her family were dying. Tania had a old notebook, given away for her mother and that she couldn't hardly write , where she was writing down on it about the death of her grandmother, her uncles and aunts, her mother and her siblings. Her diary finished when Tanya totally stayed alone.
Tanya at age of 10 was responsible to build barricades, dig trenches and keep watching on the roofs to put out the fire bombs which dropped the German planes.
The city blockade by German troops remained since the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1944, more than two years. The famine was eternal. The death went around every home, people fell by exhaustion and died physically defeated. The corpses were taken off their clothes and mutilated to justify an urgent cannibalism.Tanya was rescued joined to 140 children in August of 1942. All of them was totally undernourished and diseased and All of them were taken to hospital in a close village. Every rescued children got to survival except one. After losing his sight and not being to able to recover from his mainourishment. Tanya died of intestinal tuberculosis the 1st of July of 1944, at age of 14.
This diary has never been published but it can be seen the original in Saint Petersburg history museum.
The shortest and bitterest diary of [] history
ReplyDeleteThe blockade(1) of Leningrad during [WWII] lasted 872 days. During that two years more than one million [] people DIED, [] ninety percent [] of hunger.
IN this dramatic scene lived a fourteen-year girl who saw HOW day after day all members of her family were dying. Tania had aN old notebook, (given away for her mother and that she couldn't hardly write)(?), whereIN she was writing [] about the death of her grandmother, her uncles and aunts, her mother and her siblings. Her diary WAS finished when Tanya totally stayed alone.
Tanya at THE age of 10 was responsible to build(2) barricades, dig trenches and keep watcH on the roofs to put out the fire bombs which dropped FROM the German planes.
The city blockade by German troops remained since the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1944, more than two years. The famine was eternal. [] Death went around every home, people fell by exhaustion and died physically defeated. The corpses were STRIPPED and mutilated to justify(?) an urgent cannibalism.
Tanya was rescued WITH 140 OTHER children in August of 1942. All of them wERE totally undernourished and diseased and all of them were taken to A hospital in a close/NEARBY village. Every rescued chilD got to survivE except one. After losing hER sight and not being to able to recover from hER malnourishment, Tanya died of intestinal tuberculosis the 1st of July of 1944, at THE age of 14.
This diary has never been published but THE ORIGINAL can be seen in THE Saint Petersburg history museum.
(1) better: siege
(2) better: for building
Ella no sabia escribir = she couldn't write ?? = she didn't learn writting ??
ReplyDeletepara justificar un urgente canibalismo = to justify an urgent cannibalism(it means "due to hunger, cannibalism was justified"),
In the last pragraph speaks about an exception. a child boy, it is different of Tanya.
With "given away for her mother and that she couldn't hardly write", I was confused about who by the phrase "given away for her mother". I also wasn't sure whether the "she" was the mother or the daughter.
ReplyDelete...were stripped and mulilated, a cannibalism that was justified by the emergency.
Sorry about misunderstanding which child died. ...Every rescued child survived except one boy who, after losing his sight, was not able to recover from his malnourishment.
Thank you very much
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