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Murder story of Teberda Jews in the Sanatorium Area in Teberda (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Sanatorium Area in Teberda (Gas Vans)
Russia (USSR)
On December 22, 1942 the Jewish children who had been patients in the sanatorium and had been evacuated to [a sanatorium] in Teberda were loaded into a gas van that had been driven up to the entrance. The children were ill with tuberculosis of the bone and unable to move; some of them were in full body casts. They were gassed, according to some sources, in a birch grove near the sanatorium. Their bodies were thrown into the Gonachkhir River.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Yakov Menaker, who was born in 1923 and who's four-year-old nephew Izya German was gassed in Teberda in 1942, testified:
In 1943 my sister Sonya received a large envelope…. [In it] there was a notice about the asphixiation by gas of her son Izya German, that was perpetuated by the German Nazis in 1942 during their occupation of Teberda.
In the envelope there was also a brochure written by a nurse S.E. Ivanova with the details of the asphyxiation of patients from the Teberda sanatorium in "a gas van," that the Nazi occupiers carried out on December 22, 1942. The following was written there:
"On December 22, 1942, following the order of the Mikoyan Shakhar town Gestapo head, First Lieutenant Otto Webber, [patients] seriously ill with tuberculosis were collected from the Teberda town sanatorium. On the pretext of being evacuated, they were put into a special vehicle called a "gas van" and gassed [to death]. The corpses were then taken and dumped into the Teberda Gorge, near Gunchagir [sic]."
YVA O.33 / 1729
Sanatorium Area in Teberda (Gas Vans)
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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