In Wales, Swansea University Students' Union has used rescued greyhounds to help students unwind between exams. Sessions allow mistreated and abandoned dogs to interact with humans and begin to trust them again.
All ill-used creatures, starved dogs, cats condemned to death, sparrows fallen out of the nest, even insects and reptiles found a champion and protector in Elena; she fed them herself, and felt no repugnance for them.
There are remain in a jar until two years ago, when the visual artist and composer decided to mix them with water and used them in a painting as a reminder of the people tortured and murdered in the camp.