Tanya Savicheva

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Tanya Savicheva
Six-year-old Tanya Savicheva, 1936
Born	Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (1930-01-23)23 January 1930 Dvorishche, Gdovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 July 1944(1944-07-01) (aged 14) Shatki, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Intestinal tuberculosis
Resting place	Krasny Born cemetery, Shatki, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Nationality	Russian

Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva ((1930-01-23)23 January 1930 – (1944-07-01)1 July 1944), was a Russian diarist who kept a diary in 1942 whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva recorded the successive deaths of each member of her family in her diary, with her final entry indicating her belief to be the sole living family member. Although Savicheva was rescued and transferred to a hospital, she succumbed to intestinal tuberculosis in July 1944 at age 14.

Savicheva's image and the pages from her diary became symbolic of the human cost of the siege of Leningrad, and she is remembered in St. Petersburg with a memorial complex on the Green Belt of Glory along the Road of Life. Her diary was used during the Nuremberg Trials as evidence of the Nazis’ crimes.