It happens during the Second World War. At the Ukrainian family Tikhonenko's house there lodged five Fascist soldiers. One of them some Heinrich was seemingly more intelligent than his friends. He used to come into a temporary hut, where the Tikhonenko lived, and sometimes gave to little Victor several salty bisquits.

...So came he yesterday, gave some laundry to do to the mother, stared at little Nastya, Victor's younger sister. Then he took a photo from his uniform's pocket and showed it to the mother and Victor, he said: "Drei Kinder", pointing at the photo.

The front got nearer and the Germans murdered the last Jews survived in Dnepropetrovsk region. Little Victor witnessed that horrible execution. German troops began to leave the town. Exactly that time Heinrich came to the Tikhonenko's house, pointed at the bed, where little Nastya slept, and gave a small package to the mother. Without saying a word Heinrich went away. Victor with mother opened the package and found small child's mittens and red shoes. They were almost brand-new and fitted Nastya perfectly. Victor rejoiced and looked at his mother. But mother turned to a window, grabbed her head and cried.

Victor was dumbfounded. He remembered the barbed wire in the gully, stories about crowds of people, killed by machine-guns and he realized everything.

In autumn of 1943 year the Germans hastily left the town. But the small red shoes, which had belonged to an unknown Jewish kid killed by Nazists were left in the Ukrainian family as an horrible evidence of the Holocaust tragedy.

Those belongings have been never worn by anybody.