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2021-10-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Historians questions declassified materials about the execution of Jewish children from Teberda
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The case of the head physician of the Teberda resort in Karachay-Cherkessia, who was involved in the murder of Jewish children in 1942, declassified by the FSB, does not add anything new to what is already known, said Ilya Altman, co-chairman of the Holocaust scientific and educational center, and Eleonora, chairman of the Cherkessk Jewish community.
The Federal Security Service has declassified a criminal case against the head physician of the Teberda resort.
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The chief physician of the Teberda resort "was involved in the extermination of Jewish children evacuated to the resort from several sanatoriums of the Soviet Union, including Crimea," the press service of the FSB Directorate for Crimea and the city of Sevastopol quoted TASS on September 28.
It is noted that the materials of the criminal case relate to the events of December 1942, when the Nazis, who occupied the Teberda resort, destroyed the children of Jews who were undergoing treatment there.
"A total of 47 half-naked children aged from three to 19 were stacked in the back of the car, one on top of the other, forbidding the nurses to give them blankets with them. After loading, the car was closed and driven into the forest, where it stood for about an hour, then dropped into the Teberda gorge," the department said.
From the materials of the case, it follows that the list of 47 children on behalf of the Nazis was compiled by the head physician of the resort. They managed to save six children, upon admission to the sanatorium,
Some doctors, fearing for their lives, entered a different nationality into the questionnaires or did not fill in the column at all, the department noted. The head physician of the resort was sentenced to 25 years in prison, RIA Novosti reported.
Historians have found nothing new in declassified materials
Ilya Altman, co-chairman of the Holocaust scientific and educational center, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that some of the documents declassified by the FSB in recent years are the same documents that have already been published from the funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation. Archivists (including the archivists of the FSB), when deciding whether to declassify certain documents, "do not really look whether these documents were previously introduced into scientific circulation," he explained.
Therefore, it is advisable to compare these documents with the materials of the ChGK (the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices), Altman noted.
"From what I've read, this case does not add anything new to what we know," he said.
The ChGK and the damage they caused to citizens, collective farms, public organizations, state enterprises and institutions of the USSR, was created in 1942. The commission collected more than 250,000 pieces of evidence of the crimes of the occupiers, compiled 56,000 acts of atrocities committed by them on the territory of the USSR, according to a statement on the website of the State Archives of Russia.
Altman stressed that there are no statistics on how many such cases have been declassified, but noted that there may be quite a lot of them. "Only in the Rostov region, ten such cases, which I dealt with, were declassified," he said.
The head physician of the Teberda resort is relatively lucky, Altman said. "Usually such people who first gave evidence to the ChGK, then as accomplices of the Nazis, were sentenced to death. Here, perhaps, because of the abolition of the death penalty after the war, a person was only sentenced to imprisonment," the historian emphasized.
The fact that the case was not declassified for a long time could be caused both by the fact that the head physician was an unrehabilitated person, and by the fact that there was no request to prove that this particular case was necessary for scientific research, Altman suggested.
"The number of cases that were considered by the Soviet punitive authorities in those years, including in the North Caucasus, was overwhelming, so the declassification commissions simply did not get their hands on declassification of many cases, thanks to which many such documents were introduced into scientific circulation," said the co-chairman of the Holocaust SPC.
The project "No statute of limitations" is aimed at preserving the historical memory of the tragedy of the civilian population of the USSR, victims of war crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War, establishing the circumstances of newly revealed crimes against civilians. The project includes a large historical and archival block: the identification and declassification of archival documents and the preparation of collections and exhibitions, according to the project website.
He also noted that usually such materials are published by January 27: Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Now "such documents are declassified more for propaganda purposes than in the interests of scientific truth," said Mikhail Mints, a member of the Free Historical Society.
"It is clear that such crimes do not have a statute of limitations, but 76 years have passed since the end of the war," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The memory of the victims of Nazism has become just a bargaining chip in momentary political games, Mints said.
"If the intentions of the authorities were different, then the documents of the Soviet era would now be declassified not selectively, but in a continuous stream, simply because of the age," he explained.
All testimonies on the murder in Teberda were given during and after the war, and since then no new data has appeared, the chairman of the Jewish community of Cherkessk Eleonora Yerchenko told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
"We looked through the local archives. We have lists of the victims - both children and doctors. And if something new appears, it will certainly be interesting," she said.
Witnesses of those events have already died, nothing is known about their children, but the community honors the memory of the victims of Teberda on January 27 along with the memory of other victims of the Holocaust, Yerchenko said.
According to Yerchenko, the story in Teberda is not connected with the famous story of saving children in the village of Beslenei.
In 1942, one of the echelons with children from besieged Leningrad went to Georgia and stopped on the outskirts of the village of Beslenei in Karachay-Cherkessia. Local residents sheltered 32 of the weakest children, and later, when the territory of the aul was occupied by the Nazis, they passed them off as their own, according to the publication of the St. Petersburg News.
"Firstly, these were completely different children - in Teberda there were patients of sanatoriums, and in Beslenei there were children from Leningrad. Secondly, the big question is whether the children from Beslenei were Jews. The fact that they were from Leningrad is for sure, but I have not seen any documents stating that it was the Jews who were there," she said.
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