“Dear comrade Zemlyachka… we ask you to let our mother go.“ (F.R5446. Op.56. D.5. L. 53,53ob.) A heart-wrenching letter written in 1942 to Rosalia Zemlyachka (then deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) from a teenage girl, Nadezhda Sakharova, who lived in the regional Moscow on the Bekasovo state farm near […]