Jewish survivors of Leningrad Siege will receive reparations
For Isabella Svetlosanova, the sound of a metronome reminds her of the darkest moments in her life. A radio station in Leningrad would use one to warn residents that the city was under attack.
“The metronome would always play on the radio and depending on the frequency, it would alert us to the bombings," said Svetlosanova.
Svetlosanova was four years old when Nazi forces surrounded her hometown of Leningrad. She’s been fighting for reparations from the German government for decades and now, she’ll start to get them.
“I’ve been trying to get through to the German government for a long time. We were not compensated as we should’ve been,” Svetlosanova said.
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And and memorializing the war dead all over. Leningrad was particularly horrific since they were cut off and thousands starved. There are museums in schools teaching the next generations about the horrors of that war - and plagues in schools as memorials to the former students killed in the war. I visited many of these places as part of a peace group with my grandmother shortly before the USSR fell. The Russian people want to remember that war so it never happens again. 