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May 1942 to April 1944

CELL NO. 5

p Good-bye, all ray comrades. I’ll see you no more.

p Pyotr Kornyev 

Long live the U.S.S.R.! Ivan Timofeyevich Kuleshov. 22.IV.-44.

CELL NO. 7

p Long live the Estonian S.S.R. Death for death.

p Boichenko Y. 2/5-42.

Workers of the world, unite! Our cause is just, the foe will be smashed, victory will be ours! .

CELL NO. 19

p Vladimir Lositsky was here, 1910, Golibisov village, Starodubsky District, Orel Region. Sentenced to be shot in 1943, X. 27. Please let my parents know at the above address-Alexander Lositsky. Farewell, dear friends and my country. Farewell, my children, they are taking me out to be shot.

p Good-bye forever.  [192•* 

193

p Farewell, friends!

Sentenced to be shot l/XII-43 imprisoned officer from 92 Infantry Division, 317 Infantry Regiment, Volkhov Front, 23 Strike Force. Taken prisoner wounded 25/VI-42. Was in Pskov camp. Arrested 26/111-43. 24/VII-Pskov, gaol, cell 12. From 25/VII-43 Revel Gaol, cell 40 and from 1/XII-43-solitary 1/17.

These inscriptions were made in Tallinn Gestapo gaols. On investigation of the gaol buildings shortly after the town s liberation by the Soviet Army, a number of inscriptions on cell walls, beds and tables were discovered. They had been made by former inmates doomed by the German occupational forces. Some of the inscriptions are reproduced above.