Prisoner of war camps

The tragedy of war was not only in death, suffering and separation of millions of people. The hardest ordeal for many of its participants was captivity - forced restriction of freedom, life deprived of civil rights, struggle and death.

On the territory of the countries occupied by Nazi Germany a net of camps was created, turned into sites of organized regular murder of millions of people, including the Soviet citizens.

The ordeal by captivity was terrible not only during being there, but in the consequences which it left in fates and consciousness of its prisoners.

Repatriation, returning to peaceful life for many former prisoners of war was the returning from nonexistence. Those, who were mourned by their relatives for hundreds of days of the war and were considered dead, learnt to live again.