This is hardly the worst thing - to hear your death sentence. This means the end, after these words the timer is started, and the count goes sometimes for days, and sometimes for hours. No one even thinks of surviving after being shot or hanged, or lethal injection. However, miracles do happen. Mathematical probability is sometimes very funny. There is always a tiny percentage that the condemned will live after the execution.
Today's collection is about such people. They were literally born wearing shirts. Or maybe they, like cats, were given not one life, but several, well, or at least two.
Maggie Dixon
In 1724, Maggie from Edinburgh accompanied her husband, a fisherman, on a long voyage. Then such events lasted for years. And, unfortunately for Maggie, she was not known for being faithful. The girl realized that she became pregnant while her husband was swimming. The situation is very bad.
Maggie gave birth to a baby in the woods, who either died immediately or died shortly after birth. She could not throw a small corpse into the river and wrapped it in her scarf. Soon the body was found, and Maggie was identified by the handkerchief as the killer mother. The only punishment for this was the death penalty by hanging. For some incredible reason, Maggie's vertebrae didn't break while she was hanging from the noose around her neck. However, everyone was sure that she was dead.
When the relatives took the girl’s corpse to the cemetery, they were horrified, as a knock was heard from the coffin. Maggie Dixon survived the death penalty. She has since been dubbed "Half-Hanged Maggie". Today there is even a pub in Edinburgh named after Maggie Dixon.
Shimon Srebrnik
In 1945, Shimon was a 15-year-old Jewish boy of Polish origin who had already gone through a lot. He had to see how his father was killed in the Lodz ghetto. He had to live with the idea that his mother had been killed in the gas chamber. He had to survive the Holocaust.
Shimon was imprisoned in one of the death camps called Chelmno, which was located in occupied Poland. There, Shimon was forced to work at the crematorium, where the bodies of the killed people were destroyed around the clock.
On January 18, 1945, Soviet troops fought for the territory where Chelmno was located. The camp leadership decided to get rid of the witnesses of their atrocities and crimes. All prisoners were sentenced to death, they began to be shot. Shimon, saying goodbye to life, received his bullet in the back of the head. He fell on other prisoners. The Nazis continued to shoot. Shimon found that blood was pouring from his mouth, he was in pain, he could move, which means that he was completely alive. The bullet somehow miraculously passed without hitting either the spinal cord or the brain, it exited through the mouth, there was even a little blood.
Srebrnik lived until 2006, he testified a lot against the Nazis, his testimony became almost the main one against the leadership of the Chelmno camp.
Today, these first and last names are little known even in the territories of the post-Soviet space. And in honor of Constantine on the Moon, one of the craters is named, however, on its reverse side, but still. Feoktistov was an astronaut and an outstanding space engineer. At the age of 16, he fought with the Nazis as part of the Soviet troops.
During the Nazi occupation of Voronezh, Kostya performed reconnaissance missions for the Voronezh Front. Unfortunately, the guy was captured by an army patrol of the Waffen-SS. The conversation with the young intelligence officer was short - the death penalty on the spot through execution. A Wehrmacht soldier aimed at the head and fired. The bullet hit the right place, and the guy fell backwards. There was no time to check whether the scout was dead or not, and everything shows that he is dead. However, Kostya almost immediately realized that they don’t die like that. Death should be dark and no. But it is hot, angry and lashes right from the throat, because this is not death - this is blood, this is life. Kostya crawled to his own.
As it turned out later, the bullet passed through the neck and chin, but did not touch the brain and large arteries. Constantine was destined to leave a significant mark on the history of mankind. He lived until 2009 and died at the age of 83.
Another "bulletproof", surviving after his own execution. The sentence was carried out during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917. Some of the nine shots he received severely disfigured the guy's face. But he survived, left the place of his execution on his own, and found people who helped him. There are a lot of memories left, and Miguel was forced to look like a veteran of the First World War, to whom part of his face was blown off by a fragment all his life.
Willie Francis
The case of Willie Francis is very resonant, because he became the first person who managed to survive after an execution in the electric chair. Willy was 16 years old when he was sentenced to capital punishment for the murder of his employer - the owner of a pharmacy. In May 1946, Willy sat in the electric chair. But when it started working, he shouted: "I'm not dying, I'm frying, turn it off." The chair was turned off, and then it turned out that it was faulty.
Willie Francis in his cell on the eve of his execution
The incident gave Willie another year of life. Lawyers fought for him as best they could, they asked to replace the execution with life imprisonment. However, their efforts were in vain, and the guy was executed in May 1947 in the electric chair.
This is a disgusting man, he kidnapped, raped, and killed. He definitely deserved to die. In 2009, he was sentenced to it, and lethal injection was chosen as the instrument of execution - as a humane means.
Romel became the first and only person who survived after her. The fact is that the executioner for a very long time could not find a vein on the body of Romel. And after vain attempts, the injection was introduced into the place where the vein should approximately be. This allowed Broome to survive.
This incident saved the man's life. Since he witnessed that the death penalty by injection is actually not humane and terrible. His lawyers managed to initiate a whole movement against this type of execution.
Evan McDonald
In 1752, this man in an ordinary brawl cut his friend's throat. For this he was sentenced to death by hanging. But something went wrong, and Evan did not die completely (hanging is generally some kind of unreliable way). He was sent to the mortuary, because everything seemed that the man was dead.
When, a few hours later, a surgeon entered there, who was going to cut and thoroughly examine the body of the criminal, he was dumbfounded. Evan sat on the table and looked around in great surprise. The surgeon was a good guy and decided to stand up for his life in front of the revived dead. He grabbed an operation hammer and hit MacDonald on the head. This finished off the man completely, and the surgeon began to carry out his plan.
Amerigo Dumini was born in St. Louis, USA to Italian and British immigrants and moved to Italy. In 1913 he joined the army and renounced his US citizenship. During the First World War, he was an attack aircraft, was seriously wounded and awarded. After he became an ardent supporter of Benito Mussolini, he participated in contract political assassinations. In general, he was a bright figure. During World War II, he served in Derna, Libya, where he was captured by British soldiers. He was quite rightly mistaken for a spy and, according to the laws of wartime, they decided to shoot Amerigo. 17 bullets fired by the firing squad did not reach their target.
When Dumini returned to Italy, he was received with surprise and offered a generous pension. He went into business as a carrier and bought a villa in a residential area of Florence. He lived to be 73 years old, successfully released after a life sentence for serving the fascist regime, after serving eight years.
Philip Fabricius
These are also things of bygone days. Philip was included in this collection because of the unusual type of execution to which he was quickly sentenced during the Protestant uprising in Prague on May 23, 1618. He was present in the office of the Bohemian courtier in Prague Castle, along with the Catholic regents, during the meeting. At that moment, armed Protestant lords burst into the hall, who rebelled against the Catholic king. The rebels decided to carry out massacre on the spot. Those sentenced to death flew from the windows of the palace down from a height of 20 meters (approximately the seventh floor of a classic nine-story panel building).
Apparently, the fall softened something, and therefore the execution failed. Everyone who was thrown out of the windows escaped with injuries of varying severity, and Philip did with a couple of bruises and abrasions. Fabricius immediately fled to Vienna and there spoke about the uprising. There he lived his life, successfully moving up the career ladder. Philip died 13 years after surviving his own execution.
"Man Franks"
In 1872, an incredible event took place in Australia, which was even written about in the newspapers. The killer, known to everyone as Man Franks, survived his own hanging because he was executed by incompetent dupes.
First, the rope, on which the condemned man was to be hung, got wet from the rain, as it was left on the street. Then the executioners decided to dry it, but quickly, so they lit a fire. The rope dried up, but it stopped sliding completely. It could not even be properly fixed on Franks' neck. When this somehow happened, a support was knocked out from under him, and he began to hang out, trying in vain to suffocate. He wheezed, spat and asked to be finished off. At last he was able to free his hands, which were tied as badly as the noose around his neck. Frank pulled himself up on them, which caused a wave of laughter. He rudely cursed the useless organization of the execution, and the rope on which he hung was cut.
No one had a desire to complete what they had begun, and the sentence to the failed hangman was replaced with a more benign one.
Usually, the criminal who survived after the execution is not subjected to a second procedure. It is not for nothing that the key word in the verdict is “death”, which means the inevitability of the onset of retribution and the inevitability of the execution of the sentence.
In the past, the very fact that the criminal managed to stay alive after the execution of capital punishment was considered nothing more than God's providence, that is, it was considered a proof of innocence sent from above. Below are six real stories about people who were able to stay alive contrary to the law, even if not for long.
1. Man Franks
This is a photo of another execution, 1896. This guy is probably much less fortunate than Franks.
One of the Australian newspapers posted a note in 1872 about how the killer, nicknamed "Man Franks", survived his own execution due to the monstrous incompetence of the performers.
At first, the execution itself was delayed by several hours, as the sheriff found the scheduled time inconvenient. During the waiting time it rained and the wet rope prepared for the execution was taken to dry over the fire.
Because of this, the rope stopped slipping. Before throwing a noose around the neck of the convict, the executioner had to stick his leg into the noose and pull with all his might to move the tightly stuck knot. Then the would-be executioner tried to fix the noose around Franks' neck, but, despite all his efforts, he did not manage to do it as tightly as required by the rules.
In the end, a support was knocked out from under Frank, but after three minutes of unsuccessfully trying to suffocate, he began to twitch, asking to end his suffering and finish him off at last. And since his hands were as “tightly” tied as his neck, it was not difficult for him to pull himself up and, moving the rope from his throat, scold the organizers of the execution for their “hack-work”. Finally, one of the servants cut the rope, and the long-suffering victim of justice met the hard ground with a dull thud, since no one had thought to lay something soft for him.
Needless to say, after all that had been seen, no one wanted to finish the job, and Franks had his sentence commuted, replaced by imprisonment, and the executive power of the new monarchical elite of Fiji became the subject of ridicule all over the world.
2. Anna Green
In 1650, twenty-two-year-old Anna Green was a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Reid. She became pregnant from his grandson, but did not know that she was carrying a child in her womb. After 18 weeks, when Anna was grinding malt, she suddenly became ill. She had a miscarriage in the toilet. Terrified, the girl hid the corpse.
At that time, there was a law that any unmarried woman who concealed a pregnancy or a newborn was considered a child killer. Despite the fact that the midwives recognized the fetus as stillborn, Greene was sentenced to death by hanging in the courtyard of Oxford Castle.
During the last speech, she asked to condemn "the debauchery in the family in which she lived." She asked her friends to hang on her body to hasten her demise, and they did not refuse.
After the execution, the supposedly lifeless body was removed and taken to the anatomical theater for student training. But when the coffin was opened, the doctors discovered that the chest of the “corpse” made barely noticeable respiratory movements. They forgot their original purpose and began resuscitation through bloodletting, stimulating respiratory reflexes, and applying warm heating pads.
The public saw this as a sign from above and Green was pardoned. Taking the coffin with her as a souvenir, she settled in another town, got married and had a child.
3. Half-Hung Maggie
Cover of Alison Butler's The Hanging of Margaret Dixon
Maggie Dixon became pregnant while waiting for the return of her sailor husband, which was not at all a rosy situation for a woman in 1724. She, of course, tried to hide the pregnancy (concealment was punishable by law), but she failed and she was sentenced to death by hanging.
After the execution, her family managed to take the body away without giving it to the medicine butchers for dissection. While they were seeing Maggie off on their last journey to the cemetery, they heard a knock from inside the closed coffin. The resurrection of Maggie was perceived only as the will of God. So she became a celebrity and acquired the nickname "Half-Hanged Maggie." She lived another 40 years and to this day, not far from the place of her execution, there is a tavern named after her.
4. Inetta de Balsham
For harboring thieves, she was sentenced to death in August 1264. Sources say she was hanged at 9 am on Monday 16 August and left to hang out until the next morning. When the rope was cut, it turned out that she was still alive. Her windpipe was deformed in such a way that the knot could not completely restrict the access of air. Inetta's miraculous rescue brought her to the attention of King Henry III, who bestowed royal favor on her.
5. Romel Broom
The lethal injection was created as a humane, quick, painless and guaranteed means to take a person's life. However, Romel Broom proved that this is not entirely true.
In 2009, Romel was convicted of kidnapping, rape, murder and became the first criminal to survive a lethal injection.
The performers spent two hours trying to find a suitable vein for a drip. After cutting through Broom's entire body, they never found a vein, making the drug's effect unreliable. In the end, he was sent back to his cell with a week's reprieve from his death sentence.
During this time, Romel's lawyers began to prove that their ward experienced cruel and unusual treatment for prisoners during the unsuccessful execution. They managed to initiate a major movement aimed at changing the US law on the use of lethal injection, and Romel in this case is the main witness who cannot be executed. Broome is still alive and awaiting amnesty.
6. Evan McDonald
In 1752, Ewan Macdonald quarreled with Robert Parker and cut his throat, causing the latter to die. Macdonald was convicted of murder, sentenced to death by hanging on the city wall in the English city of Newcastle.
His "corpse" was sent to the same place as the bodies of the rest of the tortured criminals - to the anatomical theater of the local medical institution. In those days, doctors almost specifically hunted for such corpses, since they were the only practical “manuals” by which it was possible to legally study human anatomy.
This is probably why MacDonald was not destined to survive: when the surgeon who entered saw the dumbfounded convict sitting on the operating table, he, without thinking twice, grabbed a surgical hammer and completed the work of the executioner, breaking the criminal's skull. It is said that God's punishment overtook this doctor when his own horse mortally wounded him on the head with a hoof.
In the past, the very fact that the criminal managed to stay alive after the execution of capital punishment was considered nothing more than God's providence, that is, it was considered a proof of innocence sent from above. Below are six real stories about people who were able to stay alive despite the law, even if only for a short time.
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Usually, the criminal who survived after the execution is not subjected to a second procedure. It is not for nothing that the key word in the verdict is “death”, which means the inevitability of the onset of retribution and the inevitability of the execution of the sentence.
In the past, the very fact that the criminal managed to stay alive after the execution of capital punishment was considered nothing more than God's providence, that is, it was considered a proof of innocence sent from above. Below are six real stories about people who were able to stay alive despite the law, even if only for a short time.
1. Man Franks
This is a photo of another execution, 1896. This guy is probably much less fortunate than Franks.
One of the Australian newspapers posted a note in 1872 about how the killer, nicknamed "Man Franks", survived his own execution due to the monstrous incompetence of the performers.
At first, the execution itself was delayed by several hours, as the sheriff found the scheduled time inconvenient. During the waiting time it rained and the wet rope prepared for the execution was taken to dry over the fire.
Because of this, the rope stopped slipping. Before throwing a noose around the neck of the convict, the executioner had to stick his leg into the noose and pull with all his might to move the tightly stuck knot. Then the would-be executioner tried to fix the noose around Franks' neck, but, despite all his efforts, he did not manage to do it as tightly as required by the rules.
In the end, a support was knocked out from under Frank, but after three minutes of unsuccessfully trying to suffocate, he began to twitch, asking to end his suffering and finish him off at last. And since his hands were as “tightly” tied as his neck, it was not difficult for him to pull himself up and, moving the rope from his throat, scold the organizers of the execution for their “hack-work”. Finally, one of the servants cut the rope, and the long-suffering victim of justice met the hard ground with a dull thud, since no one had thought to lay something soft for him.
Needless to say, after all that had been seen, no one wanted to finish the job, and Franks had his sentence commuted, replaced by imprisonment, and the executive power of the new monarchical elite of Fiji became the subject of ridicule all over the world.
2. Anna Green
In 1650, twenty-two-year-old Anna Green was a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Reid. She became pregnant from his grandson, but did not know that she was carrying a child in her womb. After 18 weeks, when Anna was grinding malt, she suddenly became ill. She had a miscarriage in the toilet. Terrified, the girl hid the corpse.
At that time, there was a law that any unmarried woman who concealed a pregnancy or a newborn was considered a child killer. Despite the fact that the midwives recognized the fetus as stillborn, Greene was sentenced to death by hanging in the courtyard of Oxford Castle.
During the last speech, she asked to condemn "the debauchery in the family in which she lived." She asked her friends to hang on her body to hasten her demise, and they did not refuse.
After the execution, the supposedly lifeless body was removed and taken to the anatomical theater for student training. But when the coffin was opened, the doctors discovered that the chest of the “corpse” made barely noticeable respiratory movements. They forgot their original purpose and began resuscitation through bloodletting, stimulating respiratory reflexes, and applying warm heating pads.
The public saw this as a sign from above and Green was pardoned. Taking the coffin with her as a souvenir, she settled in another town, got married and had a child.
3. Half-Hung Maggie
Cover of Alison Butler's The Hanging of Margaret Dixon
Maggie Dixon became pregnant while waiting for the return of her sailor husband, which was not at all a rosy situation for a woman in 1724. She, of course, tried to hide the pregnancy (concealment was punishable by law), but she failed and she was sentenced to death by hanging.
After the execution, her family managed to take the body away without giving it to the medicine butchers for dissection. While they were seeing Maggie off on their last journey to the cemetery, they heard a knock from inside the closed coffin. The resurrection of Maggie was perceived only as the will of God. So she became a celebrity and acquired the nickname "Half-Hanged Maggie." She lived another 40 years and to this day, not far from the place of her execution, there is a tavern named after her.
4. Inetta de Balsham
For harboring thieves, she was sentenced to death in August 1264. Sources say she was hanged at 9 am on Monday 16 August and left to hang out until the next morning. When the rope was cut, it turned out that she was still alive. Her windpipe was deformed in such a way that the knot could not completely restrict the access of air. Inetta's miraculous rescue brought her to the attention of King Henry III, who bestowed royal favor on her.
5. Romel Broom
The lethal injection was created as a humane, quick, painless and guaranteed means to take a person's life. However, Romel Broom proved that this is not entirely true.
In 2009, Romel was convicted of kidnapping, rape, murder and became the first criminal to survive a lethal injection.
The performers spent two hours trying to find a suitable vein for a drip. After cutting through Broom's entire body, they never found a vein, making the drug's effect unreliable. In the end, he was sent back to his cell with a week's reprieve from his death sentence.
During this time, Romel's lawyers began to prove that their ward experienced cruel and unusual treatment for prisoners during the unsuccessful execution. They managed to initiate a major movement aimed at changing the US law on the use of lethal injection, and Romel in this case is the main witness who cannot be executed. Broome is still alive and awaiting amnesty.
6. Evan McDonald
In 1752, Ewan Macdonald quarreled with Robert Parker and cut his throat, causing the latter to die. Macdonald was convicted of murder, sentenced to death by hanging on the city wall in the English city of Newcastle.
His "corpse" was sent to the same place as the bodies of the rest of the tortured criminals - to the anatomical theater of the local medical institution. In those days, doctors almost specifically hunted for such corpses, since they were the only practical “manuals” by which it was possible to legally study human anatomy.
This is probably why MacDonald was not destined to survive: when the surgeon who entered saw the dumbfounded convict sitting on the operating table, he, without thinking twice, grabbed a surgical hammer and completed the work of the executioner, breaking the criminal's skull. It is said that God's punishment overtook this doctor when his own horse mortally wounded him on the head with a hoof.
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Elizabeth Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor was unlucky, she was considered a witch and arrested in 1692. Despite the testimony of her friends, she was sentenced to death. Elizabeth was pregnant at the time, and she gave birth to a child while in prison. When they put a rope around her neck and opened the hatch of the scaffold, she fell into the hatch, but did not die.
John Henry George Lee
John Henry George Lee was arrested as an accessory to the murder of a woman named Emma Casey. John was sentenced to hang, he was thrown into a hatch three times with a rope around his neck, but he survived all three times.
William Duell
William Duell, along with 4 other criminals, was hanged after being accused of raping and murdering a child in London. At that time, in the UK, the corpses of criminals were used for medical purposes. When William's body was on the surgical table, the student who was supposed to dissect the corpse noticed signs of breathing!
Zoleyhad Kadhoda
Zoleyhad Kadhoda, a married woman, was arrested on charges of treason and an affair with a man. As is customary in the East, such a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. It looks like this, a person is buried waist-deep in the ground, and stones are thrown at his head. Zoleyhad was quickly stoned, but after she was taken to the morgue, she was found to be alive.
Vincelao Miguel
Vincelao Miguel was arrested during the Mexican Revolution. He was sentenced to death by firing squad. After 9 shots, Miguel managed to survive. He escaped and lived a long life.
John Smith
John Smith was arrested after robbing several houses and banks. He was hanged by dropping with a rope through a hatch, but survived and lived a full life for some time.
Anna Green
Anna Green got pregnant by her employer, whom she is believed to have seduced. After the due date, she had a child, but the baby died immediately after birth. Anna tried to hide the body, and was charged with murder, for which she was sentenced to death. Anna Green was hanged from a ladder with a rope around her neck, but during the funeral, her coffin was opened and signs of breathing were found, after which she was sent to the hospital
Joseph Samuel
Joseph Samuel in 1801 committed several robberies and murders. He was part of a gang, all members of which were sentenced to death. On the day of execution, Joseph was hanged three times, and three times he managed to survive, first his rope broke, then the rope jumped off. Joseph Samuel was pardoned and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Maggie Dixon
Maggie Dixon cohabited with the innkeeper after her husband's death and gave birth to a child by him, who died shortly after giving birth. She threw the child's body into the river, but it was discovered and she was sentenced to death. After the execution, the coffin with her body was transferred to the cemetery, but there was a knock on the way. Maggie survived and lived for another 40 years!
Willie Francis
Willie Francis killed a pharmacy owner when he was 16 years old. He confessed and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. When he was executed in the electric chair, Willie Francis screamed and shuddered, but after the power outage, he remained alive. He was executed again exactly one year later.
The human body is extremely resilient and resilient. During stress, internal reserves are turned on, which allow you to go through incredible hardships. This was especially pronounced during the years of the Great Patriotic War when people endured hunger, cold and lack of sleep. There were situations when people experienced ... their own execution.
Surviving scouts
Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov, during the Great Patriotic War as a teenager, performed reconnaissance missions in his native Voronezh. Repeatedly, he and his partners in the city were detained by the Nazis. For the last time, they grabbed him and took him to be shot. In the autobiographical story "The Trajectory of Life" Feoktistov describes how this happened.
The SS man, leading the boy to the pit, shot him at point-blank range with a pistol. Feoktistov collapsed into a pit from a blow to the jaw, briefly lost consciousness, but soon came to his senses. I heard the Germans talking to each other upstairs. Then they left. The guy decided to pretend to be dead and not move. After lying down for a while, Feoktistov was about to get out of the one and a half meter hole. But he heard how the Nazis were returning and again lay down at the bottom of the grave, assuming the same pose. The Germans stood, looked and left again. Then the Voronezh man finally got out of the pit and with difficulty reached his reconnaissance group.
A pistol bullet to Konstantin Feoktistov pierced his chin and neck, went right through, the esophagus was not damaged. After some time, the tumor subsided and the young scout was cured in a field hospital.
A war veteran, Pyotr Filonenko, was also a teenager during the Great Patriotic War and served in the intelligence unit. As Filonenko recalled, he was repeatedly thrown into the German rear, the boy then brought valuable information about the location of the Nazi units and their weapons.
Near Stalingrad, Filonenko, together with a group of Red Army soldiers, was taken prisoner. The prisoners were taken to be shot, shots were fired, but one of the fighters managed to block the boy. Filonenko was only wounded. When the Germans left, the young scout, getting out from under the bodies of his comrades who had been shot, reached the nearest hut. Her mistress hid and left the wounded guy.
... and partisans
In the book of Evgeny Fedorov “The Truth about the Military Rzhev. Documents and Facts” describes the case of rescue after the execution of one of the Rzhev underground workers - Dmitry Ogurtsov. Dmitry, together with his father, helped the partisans - the son collected weapons for them, and the father repaired them. In the spring of 1942, they and several other people were arrested by punishers on a denunciation. After a brief interrogation, they led him to be shot.
As Dmitry Ogurtsov himself later recalled, he was saved by the fact that during the execution, Soviet bombers appeared over the village, the bombing began, and the Germans were in a hurry to finish the execution as soon as possible. Ogurtsov fell into the pit, not hit by a bullet, on top of him was the body of his murdered father. The sentry left at the grave left, and Dmitry got out of the pit. In one of the houses they changed his clothes, and to the question of a German who came in, where this guy came from, Dmitry lied that he “chased horses in the field”, and the Nazi fell behind. Soon Ogurtsov went to the partisan detachment.
The Belarusian partisan Konstantin Kolyada, who was taken prisoner, was shot in February 1944. The guy was taken out of the column, the SS man searched him and ordered him to go, allegedly letting him go free. In the meantime, he pulled out a pistol from his holster and fired. Kolyada fell into the snow, losing consciousness. When he woke up and realized that he was alive, he crawled along the road, hoping that it would certainly lead to some settlement.
He was lucky, the seriously wounded was noticed by local residents, bandaged. As it turned out, the bullet, having pierced the head, exited through the nasal septum. The Minsk luminaries of medical sciences who performed operations on Kolyada showed the patient to their colleagues, confirming the uniqueness of this case in the history of bullet wounds to the head - the happiness of the partisan that he survived after such a shot.