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p Partisan Popik Demyan from cell 46 was shot on October 14, 1943, at 9 p.m.

11.XII.43, 18 partisans shot from cell 32.

p Alexander Kozlov-Soviet paratrooper-landed in the vicinity of Breulov, arrested 20.XII.43. Petropavlovsky miners’ settlement, Karpinsky District, Sverdlovsk Region. Alexander Kozlov died 7.11.44.

Glory to him, eternal glory!
In the hearts of patriots and all honest people
He will not die, but live forever.
The country will not forget him.

Brothers, avenge our blood, the blood of paratrooper Alexander Kozlov. Get revenge on the nazis. Show no mercy. We know our men will come and read these words.

Vasya Buzhenko died here, 10 Proletarskaya St., Ananyev, Odessa Region. Good-bye Mum, Dad and brother Kolechka. Your son Vasya Buzhenko. Love to you all, 3rd April, 44.

p Don’t despair, we shall win because we stand firm. May hope for victory be your guiding star in minutes of despair. Don’t lose hope.

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The whole world is fighting for justice, for our life. We’ll win because we have the Communist Party behind us.

p Keep up your spirits even in this cess-pit. Victory is ours. 29.111.1944, at 10.30 p.m. wonderful news-we’ve won.

Workers of the world, unite!

p The Moldavian Republic was liberated after ringing off and wiping out a very large concentration of enemy forces around Kishinev and Jassy. At the end of August 1944, troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front brought freedom to the Moldavian people. On August 27, the last shots resounded on the eastern bank of the Prut River.

p At every step Soviet soldiers came upon evidence of the abominable crimes of Hitler’s men. The monsters had tortured and murdered tens of thousands of Soviet people here. In April of 1944 alone, the nazis in Tiraspol shot over 2,000 men and women.

These inscriptions were made on walls, plank beds and doors of cell 46-the death cell-in the First Gestapo Gaol and in the cells of Tiraspol’s Second Gaol. These cells once held Soviet patriots condemned to be shot. Most of the inscriptions were made in Russian, some in Rumanian, and a few reproduced in English and French.