Album 6
December 1943 - June 1944

Summary

As a trained veterinarian Euphrosinia was summoned to the prison-camp pig farm where the epidemic of an unknown disease broke out. She volunteered to save the dying pigs after determining the course of treatment using special tests and necessary vaccination. She took that risk despite warnings of Sarah Gordon, a physician who had saved her from dystrophy in Mezhaninovka prison camp and being transient in Yeltsovka tried to dissuade Euphrosinia from taking on that job because she faced the charges for sabotage and execution if the vaccination proved useless.
Euphrosinia succeeded in saving the pigs and took on putting the work of the farm in order.
Euphrosinia stayed on having in her tow Vera Leonidovna Tankova weak after the childbirth to whom she gave almost all of her bread ration. At her request Euphrosinia baptised her new-born son Dmitry in the prison-hut room for nursing mothers. Soon after Tankova and her child were transferred to another camp and their trace was lost.
Euphrosinia's work as a vet didn't suit the prison camp brass as she refused to sign bogus paperwork on pigs' deaths and, as a result, the ganders couldn't get extra fresh meat. Euphrosinia, as always, behaved single-heartedly openly expressing everything she felt and that was the reason for reporting her. First, they transferred her to the construction of the Youth League Club. Euphrosinia had already got into the animals and could not understand why she should have been separated from them. She did not know that before the arrest they usually fired the person to undermine the morale. On April 18, 1944, she was arrested and locked in the camp underground prison.
On June 22, 1944, the permanent session of Novosibirsk Region court for cases of the NKVD prison camps and convict colonies (ITLiK) convicted Euphrosinia under the Criminal Code Article 58-10 and sentenced her to 10 years in prison and five years of civil incapacity. With the remainder of her previous sentence absorbing by the new one she had to spent 10 years in prison instead of eight.