Doctor Sinyakov is an angel from a German concentration camp. Wonderful Russian doctor Georgy Sinyakov

“I owe a lot to the wonderful Russian doctor Georgy Fedorovich Sinyakov,” Hero said in 1961 Soviet Union, pilot Anna Egorova-Timofeeva. “It was he who saved me from death in the Custine concentration camp.”

Until the pilot Egorova, whom the Germans nicknamed the “flying witch,” told the story of the brilliant doctor, Dr. Sinyakov didn’t tell anyone about the front.

Georgy Sinyakov, who graduated from Voronezh Medical University, went to the Southwestern Front on the second day of the war. During the battles for Kyiv, the doctor provided assistance to wounded soldiers who were surrounded until the last second, until the Nazis forced him to give up this “unnecessary occupation.” Having been captured, the young doctor went through two concentration camps, Boryspil and Darnitsa, until he ended up in the Küstrin concentration camp, ninety kilometers from Berlin. Prisoners of war from all European countries were driven here. People died from hunger, exhaustion, colds and wounds. The news that there was a doctor in the camp quickly spread among the Germans.

It was decided to give the Russian doctor an exam - he, hungry and barefoot, performed a gastric resection for several hours in a row. Sinyakov’s assistants’ hands were shaking, and Georgiy performed the necessary manipulations so calmly and clearly that the Germans lost the desire to test the specialist in the future. Since that time, Sinyakov operated on wounded soldiers 24 hours a day. The news about the brilliant doctor spread far beyond the concentration camp. The Germans began to bring their relatives and friends in especially extreme cases to the captured Russian.

Once Sinyakov operated on a German boy who had choked on a bone. When the child came to his senses, the boy’s tearful mother kissed the hand of the captured Russian, kneeling in front of him. After this, Sinyakov was assigned additional rations, and also received some benefits, such as free movement around the territory of the concentration camp, fenced with three rows of mesh with iron wire. From the first day, the doctor shared part of his reinforced rations with the wounded, exchanging lard for bread and potatoes, which could be fed larger number prisoners.

Georgy headed the underground committee. The doctor helped organize escapes from Küstrin. He distributed leaflets about his successes Soviet army, raised the spirit of Soviet prisoners: even then the doctor assumed that this was also one of the methods of treatment. Sinyakov invented medicines that perfectly healed wounds, but at the same time he smeared them with a certain ointment, so that in appearance these wounds looked fresh. It was this ointment that Georgy used when the Nazis killed the legendary Anna Egorova. The Nazis waited for the brave pilot to recover in order to arrange a demonstration execution, but she kept “fading away and fading away.” When Anna recovered, Sinyakov helped her escape from the concentration camp.

The methods of saving soldiers were different, but most often Georgy began to use imitation of death. Georgy Fedorovich taught patients to pretend to be dead. The “corpse” was taken out with other truly dead people, thrown into a ditch not far from Küstrin, and when the Nazis left, the prisoner was “resurrected” to make his way to his own people.

When the Nazis managed to bring Russian pilots to the camp, they were especially happy. The Nazis especially feared and hated them. One day, ten were brought to Küstrin at once. Georgy Fedorovich managed to save everyone. And here the reception with the “dead” prisoner helped. Later, when Anna Egorova spoke about the feat of the “Russian doctor,” the living legend pilots found Georgy Sinyakov and invited him to Moscow. Hundreds of other prisoners of Küstrin, who had been saved by him, and who managed to survive thanks to the smartest and brave Sinyakov, arrived there for the most heartfelt meeting in the world.

Sinyakov accomplished his last feat in the camp just before Russian tanks liberated Küstrin. The Nazis threw those prisoners who were stronger and could still work into trains, and decided to shoot the rest in the camp. Three thousand prisoners were doomed to death. Sinyakov found out about this by chance. They told him, don’t be afraid, doctor, you won’t be shot... Sinyakov persuaded the translator to go to the fascist authorities and began to ask the Nazis not to kill exhausted prisoners, not to waste bullets and precious time on them, convincing them that many of them were so weak that and they themselves will die after a while.

The Nazis left the camp without firing a single shot, and soon Custine entered tank group Major Ilyin. Once among his own people, the doctor continued to operate. It is known that in the first 24 hours he saved seventy wounded tank crews. In 1945, Georgy Sinyakov signed his name to the Reichstag.

After the war, Georgy Fedorovich moved to Chelyabinsk. He worked as the head of the surgical department of the medical unit of the legendary ChTZ, and taught at the medical institute. Didn't talk about the war. Students recalled that Georgy Fedorovich was kind, emphatically polite and calm person. Many did not even imagine that he was in the war, and did not think about the concentration camp at all." Now the stand of the heroic surgeon is open in the museum of medicine of the Chelyabinsk hospital. Authorities Southern Urals they plan to perpetuate the memory of the legendary fellow countryman, name a street after him or establish an award for medical students named after Georgy Sinyakov.

Concentration camp prisoners

In fascist concentration camps, people died from hunger, wounds and disease.

Anna Egorova-Hero of the Soviet Union

Georgy Sinyakov in the Urals after the war

For more than 20 years, surgeon Georgy Sinyakov headed the department of a city hospital in the Urals. No one imagined that during the Great Patriotic War He, while in a fascist concentration camp, saved thousands of prisoners from death.

I'll tell you guys the story of my life. outstanding person. It is customary to call such people the flesh of the nation. They reflect the true essence of the Russian person. His character, his soul. Behind the imaginary anger of such people lies endless kindness, compassion and self-sacrifice to save the life of another person. Today, in the times of smartphones, money and other material goods, people have completely lost their heads. Human values have faded into the background. You, my dear readers, will be able to evaluate the actions of this person and maybe even feel what this wonderful person felt every day, for almost four years who performed feats.

Today, few people know about the modest Russian surgeon from Chelyabinsk Georgy Sinyakov, who, risking his own life, helped thousands of Russian soldiers.

CAPTIVITY

Sinyakov left for the Southwestern Front on the second day of the war. During the battles for Kyiv he was captured. The Fritz took him prisoner while the doctor was standing at the operating table. He spent 1200 days in captivity. The young doctor went through two concentration camps: Boryspil, Darnitsa and ended up in the Küstrinsky concentration camp, which was located ninety kilometers from Berlin.

Prisoners of war from all European countries were driven here. Of course, it was the hardest for the Russians, whom no one had ever treated, so they died in hundreds of thousands. The Germans did not consider Russians to be people, but it was not beneficial for them for the prisoners to die. Our soldiers and ordinary people died from hunger, exhaustion, colds and wounds.

The Nazis ordered Sinyakov to treat not only the French, Poles, and Bulgarians, but also the German soldiers who were guards in the concentration camp. Sinyakov demanded for this that he be able to treat Russian prisoners and equip an operating room for him. The camp commandant agreed. With the help of simple medical instruments, Georgy Sinyakov put his compatriots back on their feet.

GENIUS DOCTOR

Some time later, after Georgy began working as a doctor in a concentration camp, the news about him as a brilliant doctor spread far beyond the concentration camp. The Germans began to bring their relatives and friends to the captured Russian doctor in particularly extreme cases. Once Sinyakov operated on a German boy who had choked on a bone. When the child came to his senses, the tearful wife of the fascist kissed the hand of the Russian doctor and knelt before him. After this, Sinyakov was assigned additional rations, and also received some benefits, such as free movement around the territory of the concentration camp, fenced with three rows of mesh with iron wire. From the first day, the doctor shared part of his reinforced rations with the wounded: he exchanged lard for bread and potatoes, which could be fed to a larger number of prisoners.

UNDERGROUND COMMITTEE

Then Georgy headed the underground committee. The doctor helped prisoners organize escapes from Küstrin. He distributed leaflets telling about the successes of the Soviet army and raised the spirit of Soviet prisoners: even then the doctor assumed that this was also one of the methods of treatment. Sinyakov came up with methods of treatment that actually healed the wounds of patients well, but in appearance these wounds looked fresh.

It was this ointment that Georgy used when the Nazis shot down our legendary pilot Anna Egorova (she flew more than three hundred combat missions). The Nazis were waiting for the brave pilot to recover in order to arrange a show execution for her, but she kept “fading away and fading away.” Sinyakov treated the pilot, pretending that the medications were not helping her. So they held out until our tank crews liberated Küstrin from the Nazis. The Soviet command thought that Anna had died and for a long time could not believe in her miraculous resurrection. After the concentration camp, the Soviet counterintelligence interrogated her for a long time, mocked her, beat her, carried out checks, but in the end they released her. Orders and medals were returned.

GET OUT OF HELL

The methods of saving soldiers were different, but most often Georgy began to use imitation of death. Together with other doctors, he developed a plan for the soldiers' escape. He told patients how to pretend to be dead, acting out death on the operating table. Then they were loaded into carts along with the dead prisoners. After some time, they “came to life” and found their way to the Soviet troops. Having loudly stated to the fascists that another soldier had died, Georgy knew that the life of another Soviet man saved. The “corpse” was taken out with other really dead prisoners, thrown into a ditch not far from Küstrin, and when the Nazis left, the prisoner was “resurrected” and left to make his way to his own people.

One day, ten Soviet pilots were flown to Küstrin at once. Georgy Fedorovich managed to save everyone!

Here his favorite technique with the “dead” prisoner helped. Later, when our legendary pilot Hero of the Soviet Union Anna Egorova spoke about the feat of the Russian doctor, the living legend pilots found Georgy Sinyakov and invited him to Moscow.

There, for the most heartfelt meeting in the world, came hundreds of other former prisoners of Küstrin who had been saved by him, who managed to survive thanks to Sinyakov, who risked his life every day for the sake of others. They thanked the doctor, hugged them, invited them to visit, and they also cried together and remembered the prison hell.

ILYA ERENBURG

To save an eighteen year old prisoner Soviet soldier-a Jew named Ilya Ehrenburg, Georgy Fedorovich had to improve his resurrection technique.

The fascist warden asked Sinyakov, nodding at Ehrenburg: “Yude? (this means “Jew”). “No, Russian,” the doctor answered confidently and clearly. He knew that with such a surname Ilya had no one chance to salvation. The doctor hid Ehrenburg's documents, just as he hid the awards of the pilot Egorova, came up with an idea for the wounded to a young guy surname Belousov.

Realizing that the death of a recovering “jude” could raise questions among the guards, the doctor thought about what to do. He decided to imitate the sudden deterioration in Ilya’s health and transferred him to the infectious diseases department, where the Nazis were afraid to enter so as not to become infected.

The guy "died" here. Ilya Ehrenburg “resurrected”, crossed the front line and ended the war as an officer in Berlin.

Exactly a year after the end of the war, Ilya found the doctor. Miraculously, a photograph of Ilya Ehrenburg, which he sent to the “Russian doctor,” was preserved, with an inscription on the back that Sinyakov saved him and replaced his father in the most difficult days of his life.

THE LAST FEAT IN THE WAR

The Russian doctor performed his last feat in a concentration camp before soviet tanks Küstrin was released. The Nazis threw those prisoners who were stronger into trains, and decided to shoot the rest in the camp. Three thousand prisoners were doomed to death. Sinyakov found out about this by chance. They told him, don’t be afraid, doctor, you won’t be shot.

But Georgy could not leave his wounded, whom he operated on. Just like at the beginning of the war, in the battles near Kiev, he did not abandon them, but decided to take an unimaginably brave step. He persuaded the translator to go to the fascist authorities and began to ask the Nazis to spare the tortured prisoners and not take another sin on their souls.

The translator, with hands shaking with fear, conveyed Sinyakov’s words to the fascists. The Germans left the camp without firing a single shot. And then Major Ilyin’s tank group entered Küstrin. Once among his own people, the doctor continued to operate. It is known that in the first 24 hours he saved seventy wounded tank crews.

END OF THE CURSED WAR

When victory came, Georgy Sinyakov signed his name on the Reichstag. Standing at the walls of this damned headquarters of Hitler, he cried for a long time and remembered all those who did not live to see this wonderful day. He admired the strength of spirit of the Russian people, and believed that there is no people in the whole world stronger than the RUSSIANS! There in Germany, he vowed that he would devote his entire life to serving people.

After the war, Georgy Fedorovich worked as the head of the surgical department of the medical unit of the legendary Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, taught at medical institute. He was kind and modest, so he did not tell anyone about his participation in the Great Patriotic War.

Thousands of those saved by Georgy Fedorovich said that he was really a doctor with capital letters, a real “Russian Doctor”.

It is known that Sinyakov celebrated his birthday on the day he graduated from Voronezh University, believing that he was born when he received his doctor’s degree. He did not have any high-profile titles in his life, nor was he awarded any major awards. But this was a real person! The son of his Motherland is Georgy Fedorovich Sinyakov.

Evgeniy Filippov

How a captured concentration camp doctor saved thousands of soldiers

For more than 20 years, surgeon Georgy Sinyakov headed the department of the Chelyabinsk hospital. No one imagined that during the Great Patriotic War, while in a concentration camp, he helped hundreds of Soviet prisoners escape and saved thousands of prisoners from death.

"Flying Witch"
“I owe a lot to the wonderful Russian doctor Georgy Fedorovich Sinyakov,” said Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Anna Egorova-Timofeeva in 1961. “It was he who saved me from death in the Küstrin concentration camp.”

After this interview, rumors about the brilliant but modest Chelyabinsk surgeon Georgy Sinyakov, who, risking his own life, helped thousands of soldiers, spread all over the world. Egorova told in detail how she was shot down by fascist fighters, wounded, taken to a concentration camp, and how the fascists rejoiced that the “flying witch” herself had fallen into their hands. Soviet soldiers called the brave girl Egorushka, and according to the Sovinformburo reports, information was received that Anna Egorova was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. No one knew that she had flown more than three hundred combat missions. Soviet pilot was captured, but is alive and miraculously saved. To tell about the feat of the modest doctor Sinyakov 20 years later.

From all over the world, letters were immediately sent to Chelyabinsk with the inscription on the envelope: city of Chelyabinsk, doctor Georgy Sinyakov. Surprisingly, they reached the recipient! Hundreds of people touchingly thanked the doctor who saved them, cried when they remembered their stay in the camp, laughed when they wrote about how Sinyakov deceived the Nazis and organized escapes, talked about how their later life. And the modest doctor-surgeon, who even in the concentration camp received the name “wonderful Russian doctor”, had never spoken about the war before, only said that he was doing his duty, and “victory was not achieved in captivity.”

The meeting of war veterans is led by Georgy Sinyakov. Photo: From the family archive

Aptitude exam
Georgy Sinyakov, who graduated from Voronezh Medical University, went to the Southwestern Front on the second day of the war. During the battles for Kyiv, the doctor provided assistance to wounded soldiers who were surrounded until the last second, until the Nazis forced him to quit this “unnecessary occupation.” Having been captured, the young doctor went through two concentration camps, Boryspil and Darnitsa, until he ended up in the Küstrin concentration camp, ninety kilometers from Berlin.

Prisoners of war from all European countries were driven here. But the hardest thing was for the Russians, whom no one had ever treated. People died from hunger, exhaustion, colds and wounds. The news that there was a doctor in the camp quickly spread among the Germans. It was decided to give the Russian doctor an exam - he, hungry and barefoot, performed a gastric resection for several hours in a row. Several prisoners of war doctors from European countries. Sinyakov’s assistants’ hands were shaking, and Georgiy performed the necessary manipulations so calmly and clearly that even the Germans lost the desire to test the specialist in the future. Although some of them had previously quipped that the best surgeon from the USSR was not worth a German orderly.

Photos of rescued Russian soldiers occupy a separate folder in the Museum of the History of Medicine in Chelyabinsk.

Die to live
Sinyakov did not leave the operating table. He operated on wounded soldiers 24 hours a day. The news about the brilliant doctor spread far beyond the concentration camp. The Germans began to bring their relatives and friends in especially extreme cases to the captured Russian. Once Sinyakov operated on a German boy who had choked on a bone. When the child came to his senses, the tear-stained wife of the “true Aryan” kissed the hand of the captured Russian and knelt before him. After this, Sinyakov was assigned additional rations, and also received some benefits, such as free movement around the territory of the concentration camp, fenced with three rows of mesh with iron wire. From the first day, the doctor shared part of his reinforced rations with the wounded: he exchanged lard for bread and potatoes, which could be fed to a larger number of prisoners.

The Museum of the History of Medicine has a stand dedicated to Sinyakov.
The authorities of the city where the hero worked after the war decided to perpetuate the memory of Georgy Sinyakov.

And then Georgy headed the underground committee. The doctor helped organize escapes from Küstrin. He distributed leaflets telling about the successes of the Soviet army and raised the spirit of Soviet prisoners: even then the doctor assumed that this was also one of the methods of treatment. Sinyakov invented medicines that actually healed the wounds of patients very well, but in appearance these wounds looked fresh. It was this ointment that Georgy used when the Nazis knocked out the legendary Anna Egorova. The Nazis were waiting for the brave pilot to recover in order to arrange a demonstrative death, but she kept “fading away and fading away.” In fact, several prisoners who admired Anna’s courage, including Sinyakov, helped the girl as best they could. A Polish tailor sewed a skirt for her from a tattered robe, someone collected fish oil drop by drop, Sinyakov treated her, pretending that the medicine was not helping her. Then Anna recovered and, with the help of Sinyakov, escaped from the concentration camp. Soviet soldiers, who heard about the death of the legendary pilot, hardly believed in her miraculous resurrection.

The hero’s relatives donated awards, letters, certificates, and certificates of Georgy Fedorovich to the museum

The methods of saving soldiers were different, but most often Georgy began to use imitation of death. Fortunately, it never occurred to any of the Nazis to think about why most of the wounded prisoners who managed to escape had previously been treated by a “Russian doctor.” Georgy Fedorovich taught patients to imitate own death. Having loudly stated to the fascists that another soldier had died, Georgy knew that the life of another Soviet man had been saved. The “corpse” was taken out with other truly dead people, thrown into a ditch not far from Küstrin, and when the Nazis left, the prisoner “resurrected” to make his way to his own people.

Rescued pilots
When the Nazis managed to bring captured pilots to the camp, they were especially happy. The Nazis especially feared and hated them. One day, ten Soviet pilots were flown to Küstrin at once. Georgy Fedorovich managed to save everyone. Here his favorite technique with the “dead” prisoner helped. Later, when Anna Egorova spoke about the feat of the “Russian doctor,” the living legend pilots found Georgy Sinyakov and invited him to Moscow. Hundreds of other former prisoners of Küstrin, who had been saved by him, and who managed to survive thanks to the smartest and brave Sinyakov, arrived there for the most heartfelt meeting in the world. They idolized the doctor, thanked him, hugged him, invited him to visit him, took him to monuments, and also cried with him and remembered the prison hell.

Ilya Ehrenburg, like hundreds of other Soviet prisoners of war, would have died if not for the efforts of the “Russian doctor.”

To save an eighteen-year-old captured Soviet soldier of Jewish origin named Ilya Ehrenburg, Georgy Fedorovich had to improve his resurrection technique. The overseers asked Sinyakov, nodding at Ehrenburg: “Yude?” “No, Russian,” the doctor answered confidently and clearly. He knew that with such a surname, Ilya had no chance of salvation. The doctor, having hidden Ehrenburg’s documents, just as he hid the awards of the pilot Egorova, came up with the name Belousov for the wounded young guy. Realizing that the death of a recovering “youde” could raise questions among the supervisors, the doctor spent a month thinking about what to do. He decided to imitate Ilya’s sudden deterioration in health and transferred him to the infectious diseases department, where the Nazis were afraid to poke their noses. The guy "died" here. Ilya Ehrenburg “resurrected”, crossed the front line and ended the war as an officer in Berlin.

Exactly one year after the end of the war, the doctor found young man. Miraculously, a photograph of Ilya Ehrenburg, which he sent to the “Russian doctor,” was preserved, with an inscription on the back that Sinyakov saved him in the most difficult days of his life and replaced his father.

Exactly one year after the war, Ilya Erenburg, saved by Sinyakov, sent a photo card with thanks.

Without a single shot
The “Russian doctor” accomplished his last feat in the camp before Russian tanks liberated Küstrin. The Nazis threw those prisoners who were stronger into trains, and decided to shoot the rest in the camp. Three thousand prisoners were doomed to death. Sinyakov found out about this by chance. They told him, don’t be afraid, doctor, you won’t be shot. But Georgy could not leave his wounded, whom he had operated on thousands of, and, as at the beginning of the war, in the battles near Kiev, he did not abandon them, but decided to take an unimaginably brave step. He persuaded the translator to go to the fascist authorities and began to ask the Nazis to spare the tortured prisoners and not take another sin on their souls. The translator, with hands shaking with fear, conveyed Sinyakov’s words to the fascists. They left the camp without firing a shot. And then Major Ilyin’s tank group entered Küstrin.

Once among his own people, the doctor continued to operate. It is known that in the first 24 hours he saved seventy wounded tank crews. In 1945, Georgy Sinyakov signed his name to the Reichstag.

Sinyakov knew how to “resurrect” people from the dead.

A mug of beer for the victory
The adopted son of Georgy Fedorovich, Sergei Miryushchenko, later told such an interesting incident. As a doctor, Sinyakov never liked beer. But one day in the camp I witnessed an argument between another captured Soviet doctor and a fascist non-commissioned officer. The brave doctor told the fascist that he would see him again in Germany, in Berlin, and would drink a glass of beer for victory Soviet people. The non-commissioned officer laughed in his face: we are advancing, taking Soviet cities, you are dying in the thousands, what kind of victory are you talking about? Sinyakov did not know what happened to that captured Russian, so he decided, in memory of him and all the unbroken soldiers, to go into some Berlin tavern in May 1945 and drink a glass. foamy drink for the victory.

Portrait of Sinyakov by his colleague, surgeon Ustyuzhanin.

They said that after Egorova’s interview they tried to nominate Sinyakov for awards, but the “captive past” was not valued in post-war times. Thousands of those saved by Georgy Fedorovich said that he was truly a doctor with a capital D, a real “Russian Doctor”. It is known that Sinyakov celebrated his birthday on the day he graduated from Voronezh University, believing that he was born when he received his doctor’s degree.

Until now, the feat of the Russian doctor has been forgotten. He did not have any high-profile titles in his life, nor was he awarded any major awards. Only now, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, the public of the Southern Urals remembered the heroic surgeon, whose stand was opened in the museum of medicine of the Chelyabinsk hospital. The authorities of the Southern Urals plan to perpetuate the memory of the legendary fellow countryman, name a street after him or establish an award for medical students named after Georgy Sinyakov.

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G. F. Sinyakov and the pilots he saved from Eternal Flame in Chelyabinsk

Georgy Fedorovich died on February 7, 1978, and was buried at the Assumption Cemetery in Chelyabinsk.

Sachsenhausen is located 35 km north of Berlin. Functioning since 1936, the camp became a training center for “security detachments” used to monitor the newly formed concentration camps.
A task force of Sachsenhausen prisoners was used for heavy bricklaying work in accordance with Albert Speer's vision of rebuilding Berlin. In general, Sachsenhausen was not originally a death camp, and systematic killings were carried out in camps to the east. In 1942 large number Jews were moved to Auschwitz. However, the construction of a gas chamber and ovens by order of Sachsenhausen commandant Anton Kaindl in March 1943 triggered the beginning of massacres in this camp.

The main gate of Sachsenhausen, or Security Tower "A", was equipped with an 8 mm Maxim machine gun. The infamous slogan “Work makes you free” (“Arbeit Macht Frei”) hung on the gate. Between 1936 and 1945, approximately 200 thousand people passed through the camp.
About 30 thousand inhabitants of Sachsenhausen died from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. Many were executed, including on a terrible mechanized gallows, and some died from brutal medical experiments.

In the first years of the camp's existence, mainly German political prisoners were kept here. But as Nazism grew in the country, the number of prisoners constantly increased and, if in 1937 there were 2,500 people, then after Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938, the number increased 3 times due to newly arrived Jews. Ultimately, Sachsenhausen became a place for imprisoning Jews, gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, and countless priests.

And since 1939, the camp was replenished with prisoners from the occupied territories, including a huge number of Soviet soldiers. Among the significant figures, the son of J.V. Stalin, Yakov Dzhugashvili, was imprisoned here, as well as General Karbyshev. However, at present, thanks to declassified archival documents, it has been possible to identify many inconsistencies in the fate of Yakov, so that, apparently, he was really killed in battle, and in captivity a completely different person impersonated him.

In September-November 1941, transports with Soviet prisoners of war began to arrive in Sachsenhausen one after another. Half-dead people sat and stood in the freight car, huddled closely together; Among them were those who died on the way. Those who arrived were sent to the “production” yard, where they were shot while powerful radios howled. Often prisoners were forced to sing Russian folk songs in chorus.

At the same time, in the fall of 1941, an unprecedented action of mass extermination of Soviet prisoners of war was carried out in Sachsenhausen - the one-time execution of 18,000 soldiers and officers brought from the eastern front. They were killed one by one with shots to the back of the head. This, which had no analogues in military history, the SS men called the cynical murder of prisoners of war a “Russian action.” The heroes of this action, the SS men, were rewarded with a vacation in Sorrento.

Concentration camp prisoners worked for long grueling hours, living conditions were terrible, prisoners worked in military factories and construction work. One of the unique activities was the well-established production of counterfeit money - Operation Bernhard: the best artists and counterfeiters were collected from all concentration camps, who counterfeited American, British and Soviet money in Sachsenhausen, thereby undermining the economies of these countries.

Sachsenhausen was equipped with mobile and stationary crematoria, gas chambers, gallows, and other instruments of death. The blockführers, led by the camp commandant, competed to improve these weapons. Everything that the thousands of prisoners of war brought to Sachsenhausen saw, according to the SS men, should have caused fear in them.

Bandera rested in the same camp. In 1944, his son was born in the camp. In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko and another 300 Banderaites were kept separately in the Cellenbau bunker, where they were kept in good conditions. Bandera's members were allowed to meet with each other, and they also received food and money from relatives and the OUN-b. Not infrequently, they left the camp for the purpose of contacts with the “conspiracy” OUN-UPA, as well as with the Friedenthal castle (200 meters from the Tselenbau bunker), which housed a school for OUN agent and sabotage personnel. (there the tractor drivers were screaming about “without the right of correspondence, in cruel conditions...” - they lied again. They even went to Berlin without security sometimes..). The instructor at this school was a recent officer of the Nachtigal special battalion, Yuri Lopatinsky, through whom Stepan Bandera made contact with the OUN-UPA.

During his stay in this barracks, Bandera still continued to maintain contacts with the General Government, albeit to a lesser extent. In 1943 and early 1944, he was joined by other nationalist leaders - T. Bulba-Borovets and A. Melnik. Describing their stay in this “institution,” they noted the good food by military standards and the opportunity for relatively free movement around the territory and even sometimes outside it.
A little earlier, in the same 1943, at the beginning of August, a meeting of representatives of the German authorities and the OUN took place in Sarny, Rivne region, to agree on joint actions against the partisans, then the negotiations were moved to Berlin (according to some reports, “inmates” from special forces also took part in them -baraka). An agreement was reached that the UPA will protect railways and bridges from Soviet partisans, support the activities of the German occupation authorities. In return, Germany promised to supply UPA units with weapons and ammunition (this was just when “there were fierce battles between the UPA and the Nazis,” according to Bandera’s stories).

This fact of “conclusion” allowed nationalist historians to make martyrs out of Bandera and Stetsko. But, reveling in the description of the suffering of the OUN leaders, for some reason they are silent that the “prime minister” and the “leader” were kept in a privileged section of Sachsenhausen. If the Nazis had decided to finally deal with Bandera and Stetsko, they would have been placed in a “regular” concentration camp, where they did not last three years (Bandera’s brothers, Oleksa and Vasily, together with Stepan were sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but were then transferred to Auschwitz to the “regular” regime, where they quickly died in 1942. How - it is unknown, it is quite possible - the Germans saved Bandera and other OUN figures from this fate “for their usefulness” by other Soviet prisoners of war for “special merits.” ).

Bandera, on the contrary, was sitting in a cell in the 73rd Tselenbau bunker, reminiscent of a hotel suite. It is no coincidence that their imprisonment was characterized by the word “erengaft,” that is, honorable arrest (“The Earth Accuses,” p. 115).

The Germans liberated Bandera and his supporters in the early autumn of 1944. After the liberation, the Germans offered Bandera to head the Ukrainian national body they were creating to fight the USSR. In the winter of 1944-1945, in particular, S. Bandera instructed the Abwehrstelle teams in Krakow and found himself in the territory occupied by Soviet troops, from where he was subsequently transported to the territory of the Reich by Otto Skorzeny (memoirs: Skorzeny O. Meine Kommandounternehmen: Krieg ohne Fronten. - Wiesbaden, Munchen: Limes-Verlag. 1975).
After leaving the Nazi concentration camp, Stepan Bandera again took up organizational issues of the activities of the OUN, being outside of Ukraine, in West Germany, where the central bodies of the organization were located.
Those. "hero Ukrainian nationalists"during the entire war - he never appeared in Ukraine... leading the "movement" first from the Abwehr dacha, then "from the concentration camp", and then from the "headquarters in Bonn"..
Stetsko survived his “accomplice”, while living in the USA he let out poisonous saliva, calling for the bombing of both Russia and Ukraine nuclear bombs, and at the same time raised the “Bandera Hitler Youth”, a new generation of Ukrainian-Americans, in hatred of the USSR and the “damned Muscovites”... one of his favorite students was Kati Chumachenko, later an employee of the US State Department, and then the wife and CREATOR of the president Ukraine V. Yushchenko... The fascist died quite recently.

But Roman Shukhevych, UPA commander and “hero of Ukraine” was liquidated by the MGB in 1950.

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In August 1945, three months after the end of the war and the liberation of Europe from National Socialism, the NKVD founded Special Camp No. 7 here. Most of the buildings - with the exception of the crematorium and the site of mass executions - were used for their previous purpose. Now here are those who belonged to the middle and lower echelons of the Nazi party nomenklatura, persons convicted by a Soviet military tribunal, but along with them - politically undesirable figures for the new leadership, and in addition, very young people and old people accused of having connections with Nazi regime, but in fact not involved in anything... Former prisoners of war were also kept here - Soviet citizens who were waiting to return to the Soviet Union, former members of the Nazi party, social democrats dissatisfied with the socialist-communist social system

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important clarification:

Georgy Fedorovich Sinyakov helped many prisoners escape along with a German translator, Corporal Helmut Schacher, a German communist. Chakher, who knew the area well, developed an escape route from Küstrin and drew a map, which was given along with a watch and a compass to those who decided to escape.

"Flying Witch"

“I owe a lot to the wonderful Russian doctor Georgy Fedorovich Sinyakov,” said Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Anna Egorova-Timofeeva in 1961. “It was he who saved me from death in the Küstrin concentration camp.”

After this interview, rumors about the brilliant but modest Chelyabinsk surgeon Georgy Sinyakov, who, risking his own life, helped thousands of soldiers, spread all over the world. Egorova told in detail how she was shot down by fascist fighters, wounded, taken to a concentration camp, and how the fascists rejoiced that the “flying witch” herself had fallen into their hands. Soviet soldiers called the brave girl Egorushka, and according to the Sovinformburo reports, information was received that Anna Egorova was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. No one knew that the Soviet pilot, who had flown more than three hundred combat missions, was captured, but was alive and miraculously saved. To tell about the feat of the modest doctor Sinyakov 20 years later.

Until the pilot Egorova told the story of the brilliant doctor, Sinyakov did not tell anyone about the front.

From all over the world, letters were immediately sent to Chelyabinsk with the inscription on the envelope: city of Chelyabinsk, doctor Georgy Sinyakov. Surprisingly, they reached the recipient!

Hundreds of people touchingly thanked the doctor who saved them, cried when they remembered their stay in the camp, laughed when they wrote about how Sinyakov deceived the Nazis and organized escapes, and talked about how their future lives turned out. And the modest doctor-surgeon, who even in the concentration camp received the name “wonderful Russian doctor”, had never spoken about the war before, only said that he was doing his duty, and “victory was not achieved in captivity.”

Aptitude exam

Prisoners of war from all European countries were driven here. But the hardest thing was for the Russians, whom no one had ever treated. People died from hunger, exhaustion, colds and wounds. The news that there was a doctor in the camp quickly spread among the Germans. It was decided to give the Russian doctor an exam - he, hungry and barefoot, performed a gastric resection for several hours in a row. Several prisoners of war doctors from European countries were assigned to examine the young Russian. Sinyakov’s assistants’ hands were shaking, and Georgiy performed the necessary manipulations so calmly and clearly that even the Germans lost the desire to test the specialist in the future. Although some of them had previously quipped that the best surgeon from the USSR was not worth a German orderly.

Photos of rescued Russian soldiers occupy a separate folder in the Museum of the History of Medicine in Chelyabinsk.

Die to live

Sinyakov did not leave the operating table. He operated on wounded soldiers 24 hours a day. The news about the brilliant doctor spread far beyond the concentration camp. The Germans began to bring their relatives and friends in especially extreme cases to the captured Russian. Once Sinyakov operated on a German boy who had choked on a bone. When the child came to his senses, the tear-stained wife of the “true Aryan” kissed the hand of the captured Russian and knelt before him. After this, Sinyakov was assigned additional rations, and also received some benefits, such as free movement around the territory of the concentration camp, fenced with three rows of mesh with iron wire. From the first day, the doctor shared part of his reinforced rations with the wounded: he exchanged lard for bread and potatoes, which could be fed to a larger number of prisoners.

The Museum of the History of Medicine has a stand dedicated to Sinyakov. The authorities of the city where the hero worked after the war decided to perpetuate the memory of Georgy Sinyakov

The hero’s relatives donated awards, letters, certificates, and certificates of Georgy Fedorovich to the museum

The methods of saving soldiers were different, but most often Georgy began to use imitation of death. Fortunately, it never occurred to any of the Nazis to think about why most of the wounded prisoners who managed to escape had previously been treated by a “Russian doctor.” Georgy Fedorovich taught patients to imitate their own death. Having loudly stated to the fascists that another soldier had died, Georgy knew that the life of another Soviet man had been saved. The “corpse” was taken out with other truly dead people, thrown into a ditch not far from Küstrin, and when the Nazis left, the prisoner “resurrected” to make his way to his own people.

Rescued pilots

When the Nazis managed to bring captured pilots to the camp, they were especially happy. The Nazis especially feared and hated them. One day, ten Soviet pilots were flown to Küstrin at once. Georgy Fedorovich managed to save everyone. Here his favorite technique with the “dead” prisoner helped. Later, when Anna Egorova spoke about the feat of the “Russian doctor,” the living legend pilots found Georgy Sinyakov and invited him to Moscow. Hundreds of other former prisoners of Küstrin, who had been saved by him, and who managed to survive thanks to the smartest and brave Sinyakov, arrived there for the most heartfelt meeting in the world. They idolized the doctor, thanked him, hugged him, invited him to visit him, took him to monuments, and also cried with him and remembered the prison hell.

Ilya Ehrenburg, like hundreds of other Soviet prisoners of war, would have died if not for the efforts of the Russian doctor

Exactly a year after the end of the war, the doctor found the young man. Miraculously, a photograph of Ilya Ehrenburg, which he sent to the “Russian doctor,” was preserved, with an inscription on the back that Sinyakov saved him in the most difficult days of his life and replaced his father.

Exactly one year after the war, Ilya Erenburg, saved by Sinyakov, sent a photo card with thanks

Without a single shot

The “Russian doctor” accomplished his last feat in the camp before Russian tanks liberated Küstrin. The Nazis threw those prisoners who were stronger into trains, and decided to shoot the rest in the camp. Three thousand prisoners were doomed to death. Sinyakov found out about this by chance. They told him, don’t be afraid, doctor, you won’t be shot. But Georgy could not leave his wounded, whom he had operated on thousands of, and, as at the beginning of the war, in the battles near Kiev, he did not abandon them, but decided to take an unimaginably brave step. He persuaded the translator to go to the fascist authorities and began to ask the Nazis to spare the tortured prisoners and not take another sin on their souls. The translator, with hands shaking with fear, conveyed Sinyakov’s words to the fascists. They left the camp without firing a shot. And then Major Ilyin’s tank group entered Küstrin.

Once among his own people, the doctor continued to operate. It is known that in the first 24 hours he saved seventy wounded tank crews. In 1945, Georgy Sinyakov signed his name to the Reichstag.

A mug of beer for the victory

The adopted son of Georgy Fedorovich, Sergei Miryushchenko, later told such an interesting incident. As a doctor, Sinyakov never liked beer. But one day in the camp I witnessed an argument between another captured Soviet doctor and a fascist non-commissioned officer. The brave doctor told the fascist that he would see him again in Germany, in Berlin, and would drink a glass of beer for the victory of the Soviet people. The non-commissioned officer laughed in his face: we are advancing, taking Soviet cities, you are dying in the thousands, what kind of victory are you talking about? Sinyakov did not know what happened to that captured Russian, so he decided, in memory of him and of all the unbroken soldiers, to go into some Berlin tavern in May 1945 and drink a glass of foamy drink for the victory.

Portrait of Sinyakov by his colleague, surgeon Ustyuzhanin.

Sinyakov knew how to “resurrect” people from the dead.

“I owe a lot to the wonderful Russian doctor Georgy Fedorovich Sinyakov, - said Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot, in 1961 Anna Egorova-Timofeeva. “It was he who saved me from death in the Küstrin concentration camp.”

After this interview, rumors about the brilliant but modest Chelyabinsk surgeon Georgy Sinyakov, who, risking his own life, helped thousands of soldiers, spread all over the world. Egorova told in detail how she was shot down by fascist fighters, wounded, taken to a concentration camp, and how the fascists rejoiced that the “flying witch” herself had fallen into their hands. Soviet soldiers called the brave girl Egorushka, and according to the Sovinformburo reports, information was received that Anna Egorova was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. No one knew that the Soviet pilot, who had flown more than three hundred combat missions, was captured, but was alive and miraculously saved. To tell about the feat of the modest doctor Sinyakov 20 years later.

Until the pilot Egorova told the story of the brilliant doctor, Sinyakov did not tell anyone about the front. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova

From all over the world, letters were immediately sent to Chelyabinsk with the inscription on the envelope: city of Chelyabinsk, doctor Georgy Sinyakov. Surprisingly, they reached the recipient! Hundreds of people touchingly thanked the doctor who saved them, cried when they remembered their stay in the camp, laughed when they wrote about how Sinyakov deceived the Nazis and organized escapes, and talked about how their future lives turned out. And the modest doctor-surgeon, who even in the concentration camp received the name “wonderful Russian doctor”, had never spoken about the war before, only said that he was doing his duty, and “victory was not achieved in captivity.”

The meeting of war veterans is led by Georgy Sinyakov. Photo: From the family archive

Aptitude exam

Prisoners of war from all European countries were driven here. But the hardest thing was for the Russians, whom no one had ever treated. People died from hunger, exhaustion, colds and wounds. The news that there was a doctor in the camp quickly spread among the Germans. It was decided to give the Russian doctor an exam - he, hungry and barefoot, performed a gastric resection for several hours in a row. Several prisoners of war doctors from European countries were assigned to examine the young Russian. Sinyakov’s assistants’ hands were shaking, and Georgiy performed the necessary manipulations so calmly and clearly that even the Germans lost the desire to test the specialist in the future. Although some of them had previously quipped that the best surgeon from the USSR was not worth a German orderly.

Photos of rescued Russian soldiers occupy a separate folder in the Museum of the History of Medicine in Chelyabinsk. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova

Die to live

The Museum of the History of Medicine has a stand dedicated to Sinyakov. The authorities of the city where the hero worked after the war decided to perpetuate the memory of Georgy Sinyakov. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova

The hero’s relatives gave Georgy Fedorovich’s awards, letters, certificates, and certificates to the museum. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova The methods of saving soldiers were different, but most often Georgy began to use imitation of death. Fortunately, it never occurred to any of the Nazis to think about why most of the wounded prisoners who managed to escape had previously been treated by a “Russian doctor.” Georgy Fedorovich taught patients to imitate their own death. Having loudly stated to the fascists that another soldier had died, Georgy knew that the life of another Soviet man had been saved. The “corpse” was taken out with other truly dead people, thrown into a ditch not far from Küstrin, and when the Nazis left, the prisoner “resurrected” to make his way to his own people.

Rescued pilots

Ilya Ehrenburg, like hundreds of other Soviet prisoners of war, would have died if not for the efforts of the “Russian doctor.” Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova

To save an eighteen-year-old captured Soviet soldier of Jewish origin named Ilya Erenburg, Georgy Fedorovich had to improve his technique with resurrection. The overseers asked Sinyakov, nodding at Ehrenburg: “Yude?” “No, Russian,” the doctor answered confidently and clearly. He knew that with such a surname, Ilya had no chance of salvation. The doctor, having hidden Ehrenburg’s documents, just as he hid the awards of the pilot Egorova, came up with the name Belousov for the wounded young guy. Realizing that the death of a recovering “youde” could raise questions among the supervisors, the doctor spent a month thinking about what to do. He decided to imitate Ilya’s sudden deterioration in health and transferred him to the infectious diseases department, where the Nazis were afraid to poke their noses. The guy "died" here. Ilya Ehrenburg “resurrected”, crossed the front line and ended the war as an officer in Berlin.

Exactly one year after the war, Ilya Erenburg, saved by Sinyakov, sent a photo card with thanks. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova

Without a single shot

Once among his own people, the doctor continued to operate. It is known that in the first 24 hours he saved seventy wounded tank crews. In 1945, Georgy Sinyakov signed his name to the Reichstag.

Sinyakov knew how to “resurrect” people from the dead. Photo: AiF/ Nadezhda Uvarova

A mug of beer for the victory

Adopted son of Georgy Fedorovich, Sergey Miryushchenko, later told such a curious incident. As a doctor, Sinyakov never liked beer. But one day in the camp I witnessed an argument between another captured Soviet doctor and a fascist non-commissioned officer. The brave doctor told the fascist that he would see him again in Germany, in Berlin, and would drink a glass of beer for the victory of the Soviet people. The non-commissioned officer laughed in his face: we are advancing, taking Soviet cities, you are dying in the thousands, what kind of victory are you talking about? Sinyakov did not know what happened to that captured Russian, so he decided, in memory of him and of all the unbroken soldiers, to go into some Berlin tavern in May 1945 and drink a glass of foamy drink for the victory.