 Poets Olga Bergholz and Anna Akhmatova contributed their talents to support the morale of civilians and military personnel fighting in the city.Following Germany's capitulation in May 1945, a concerted effort was made in Germany to search for the collections removed from the museums and palaces of Leningrad's surrounding areas during the war.In September 1945, the Leningrad Philharmonic returned to the city from Siberia where it was evacuated during the war to give its first peacetime concert performances.