1943, an uprising against the fascist invaders in Pavlograd, a small town in Eastern Ukraine. The underground liberated their hometown on their own. The uprising was organized to save concentration camp prisoners and support the Red Army advancing towards Kharkov. It's hard to be German if you were born in Russia and grew up in the Soviet Union. If your ethnic fellow tribesmen came to destroy your Motherland, which gave you life. Yes, they speak the same language as you, but they are your enemies. Where ordinary people found strength in themselves - a teacher and a doctor. Not special agents, not saboteurs, ethnic Germans - born at the beginning of the twentieth century, in what was then the Russian Empire. During the years of occupation, underground fighters saved more than five thousand residents of Pavlograd and Soviet prisoners of war from the DULAG 111 concentration camp from deportation to Germany. Only after the war did the heroes of this book learn about how much each of them contributed to our Great Victory.