Teberda

After the war broke out about 200 people from the medical staff and 1,500 children patients, many of them unable to move, were evacuated from sanatorium in Ukraine and the Crimea to the Teberda sanatorium for those suffering from tuberculosis of the bone. According to some sources among the 1,500 children there were about 50 Jews. In July–August 1942 Teberda was initially occupied by Romanian troops and later, around November 1942, German troops arrived. The Germans ordered the Jews to wear armbands with the Star of David on them. Due to the lack of food the sick children had starved and many of them died from hunger. Several young Jews who joined groups of non-Jewish teenage patients, who were all able to walk, managed to escape from Teberda via the mountains to unoccupied areas of the Caucasus. On December 11, 1942 the Jewish staff members of the children's were directed to assemble on the following day at the Gestapo headquarters. The people were told to bring with them their most valuable possessions on the pretext of an evacuation sent to perform forced labor in the coal mines of Karachay District. Unwilling to follow the Gestapo orders, two Jewish women, Sofiya Farber, the sanatorium accountant, and Frida Belkina, a ENT specialist, committed suicide. On December 12, 1942, the Jews were forced to "The Carriage" - one of the unheated summer pavilions of "The Scientists' Sanatorium". There for the next two days they were kept with no food or water and their possessions were looted. The German soldiers severely beat the imprisoned Jews; unable to stand the abuse the pharmacist Sofiya Neyman - Shabashevich went insane. In the course of two days 285 Jewish victims were shot in the area of the Lysaya mountain. Several dozen Jewish children who had been evacuated to the Teberda sanatorim were gassed on December 22, 1942.

The town was liberated on January 21, 1943.