Lena Mukhina

Elena "Lena" Mukhina ((1924-11-21)21 November 1924 – 5 August 1991(1991-08-05) (aged 66)), was a Russian diarist and Holocaust survivor who wrote a journal during the Siege of Leningrad, describing her experiences, hunger, being forced to eat her pet cat, and the deaths of her family members. She evacuated from the besieged Leningrad in June 1942, and lived in the capital Moskva (Moscow) until her death in 1991.[1]

  1. ↑ Parsons, Chris (2011-09-09). "The Anne Frank of Leningrad: Diary of Russian teenager who survived 872-day Nazi siege". Mail Online. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.