p Not later than September 22, 1943

p Farewell, dear Soviet people. We are to be killed today, but we want to live. We are young, have suffered terrible torture, remained true to our country... .

I, Alex. Kuznetsov, Russian, lived in....  [170•*  My comrade—Valdur Saarestik, from the Estonian S.S.R., Dago Island, hom....*

After the liberation of Smolensk Region, a murder camp was discovered in the village of Granki, in which during two years of bloody slaughter, the occupational forces had shot and tortured many Soviet people. In one of the discovered graves the body of a young lad in a sweater was uncovered. There were no documents on him but in the sleeve of his sweater was concealed a note written on a piece of a German envelope, apparently picked up by the lad somewhere on the road.