If your parents are deceased and you are an orphan do you think there is a list of all orphans somewhere
I suppose you could check the listings of local orphanges, homes where orphans grew up. But I don't think there's a master list of orphans anywhere.
I know there is some type of list that has famous and notible people on it.
War theatre (1941-1945) of World War II.
Abandoned children, 1918–1930.
By the early 1920s, Russia was home to millions of orphaned and abandoned children, collectively described in Russian as "besprizornye", "besprizorniki" (literally "unattended"). By 1922, World War I, Russian Revolution, and Civil War had resulted in the loss of at least 16 million lives within the Soviet Union's borders, and severed contact between millions of children and their parents. At this time,
he looks at me, and then he takes my hand and shakes it and said, "Yes, I've heard about you and your work. How is it?" I said, "Well, honestly, sir, it's not very good right now. The orphans at Gisimba are surrounded, and I think there's going to be a massacre, if there hasn't been already." He turns around, talks to some of his aides or whatever, [and he turns back to me and]