![]() Some undetermined time later in an undisclosed location, a patrol Tanya was a part of was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Germans, forcing her to take shelter in a collapsed building. Fleeing through the woods, she was picked up by a patrol from the Red Army. However, what is known is that Tanya was quickly separated from her family, whom she never saw again. The date on which German Armed Forces entered and took the village of Pitomnik is unknown. Her home village of Pitomnik was small and isolated, cut off from the everyday realities of what would become known to all Russians as The Great Patriotic War. Tanya knew little of the war in Europe, even after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. ![]() This isolation served to somewhat blind the village inhabitants to the specific details of the Great Patriotic War, even though they knew it existed and was raging on. ![]() Tanya's home village of Pitomnik was a small and comparatively isolated community located within the western realm of Russia. ![]()
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